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Harby 1793
This is the village shown on the enclosure maps of 1793. The images are supplied by, and reproduced by kind permission of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, reference number MA-EN-A-136-1. The maps are not easy to interpret as they are drawn starting with the roads, houses and fields from before the enclosures, then proposals for the enclosure alterations added. Cracks have developed in the surface of the maps over the years which can be seen as wavy lines. At the top the road running north to Langar can be seen as straight lines superimposed on earlier lines. There are lines which suggest that the route of the canal is included which was being surveyed at this time. This is the north one of two maps which cover the parish. This north map stops at the southern end of the village with only the north side of Stathern Road marked except at the south end of the what we know as Boyers Orchard today where there are houses marked on the south side of Stathern Road. The roads, streets and paths of the village are much as today, but here a road or path goes round the edge of the churchyard, and there are roads extending Boyers Orchard to the east and going north from the turn of Pinfold Lane to a farm at the north-east of the village which is not shown on the 1884 map. At the bottom is the south part of the village which in fact has no houses except possibly one on the west side of Green Lane where it meets Stathern Road. |
