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Kelly Directory of Leicestershire 1912, page 91

HARBY is a large village and parish on the borders of Nottinghamshire, on the south side of the Grantham canal,'with a station called " Harby and Stathern," which is the junction of the Newark and Melton Mowbray and Melton and Nottingham joint lines of the Great Northern and London and North Western railways, 1 1/4 miles south east of the village, 8 3/4 north from Melton Mowbray and 14 south-east from Nottingham, in the Eastern division of the county, Framland hundred, Belvoir petty sessional division, Melton Mowbray union and county court district, rural deanery of Framland (first portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock, presented by the Duke of St. Albans, and 5 bells, two dated 1610, one 1614, one 1701 and the fifth 1887 : the chancel retains an aumbrey and a piscina and there is also a piscina in the south aisle : the font bears the date 1606 : the church was restored and new-roofed in 1870, and further restoration took place during 1874 and 1876, at a cast of £1,925 ; a new vestry and organ chamber were added in 1903 ; there are 220 sittings : in the churchyard is an ancient stone cross. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £400, arising from 459 3/4| acres of land (awarded in lieu of tithes at the Inclosure in 1790), with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Edward Henry Stone. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1847. In 1739 the Rev. John Major left £10, the interest for the poor of this parish, who also receive £6 13s. 4d. yearly from Chester's Charity, of Barkstone; Mrs. Hannah Thompson left £10 for the benefit of the church Sunday school in 1863; Mrs. Orson left £20; the Duke of St. Albans gave £40 in 1839 : the interest of the above sums, which are all in the care of the Charity Commissioners, is distributed yearly by the rector and churchwardens. The Duke of Rutland, who is lord of the manor, Messrs. Frank Smith and John Whittle, jun. the trustees of the late Francis Orson and the rector are the chief landowners. The soil is clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are beans and wheat and some land in pasture. The area is 2,056 acres of land and 6 of water ; rateable value, £3,760 ; the population in 1911 was 605.

Sexton, John Cumberland.

Post, M. O. & T. & Telephone Call Office.—Mrs. Ann Kemp, sub-postmistress. Letters through Melton Mowbray arrive at 8 a.m. & 3.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.5 a.m. & 5.15 p.m. week days only

Public Elementary School (non-provided) (mixed), under the Education Committee of the County Council ; erected 1860, to hold 110 children ; average attendance, 105 ; Alfred Warman Edwards, master

Railway Station, John W. Page, station master

Carrier.—
Miller, to Melton Mowbray, tues. & Nottingham, wed. & sat

Barke Robert
Green William
Stone Rev. Edward Henry [rector], Rectory
Whittle John, jun

COMMERCIAL.
Allen Harry, butcher
Allen William, grazier
Attewell Thomas, grazier
Barke George, farmer
Brown William, grocer
Butcher Horace, Nag's Head p.h
Buxton Robert, cheese maker
Cox Bertie, White Hart p.h
Dickman Thomas, plumber
Edwards Alfred Warman, schoolmaster, clerk to Parish Council & assistant overseer
Emberlin & Co. Limited, cheese makers
Fairbrother Herbert, grazier
Furmidge Harry, farmer
Furmidge Samuel, cowkeeper
Gale Charles, grazier
Glover William, grazier
Goodson Thomas, farmer
Hopkins James, grazier
Huckerby Thomas J. farmer
Kemp Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Post of
Kemp Eustace, grazier
Lamin John, grazier
Martin Thomas, wheelwright
Moulds Edgar, shopkeeper
Moulds Henry, brewers' traveller
Moulds John, grazier
Musson Daniel, carpenter
Musson John, carpenter
Musson Samuel, carpenter
Parker William Henry, farmer
Pepper Frederick, grocer
Pick Josiah, cowkeeper
Rawlinson Charles, grazier
Robinson Frederick, coal dealer
Rose Joseph, grazier
Smith Frederick W. baker
Starbuck Fred & Frank, farmers
Starbuck Mary Jane (Miss), cheese maker
Stead & Swingler, blacksmiths
Stokes Otho, plumber & glazier
Stubbs Walter, miller (steam & wind), corn & cake merchant, The Mill
Swingler Samuel, butcher
Swingler William, farmer, Harby lodge
Swingler William, jun. blacksmith, see Stead & Swingler
Taylor Arthur Henry, baker
Watchorn William, grazier
Wright Edward, cow keeper