Harby, Nottinghamshire
Harby is the easternmost village in the English county of Nottinghamshire. The nearest large town is Lincoln, over the border in Lincolnshire. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 289,[1] increasing to 336 at the 2011 Census.[2]
Buildings
The parish church of All Saints' was built in 1875–76 in Early English style. In the east wall of the tower is a statue in memory of Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of King Edward I of England, who died on 28 November 1290[3] at the nearby house of Richard de Weston. The moated site of Weston's house is to the east of the church. The capless stump of a five-storey tower windmill, built about 1877, stands at the end of Mill Field Close (grid reference SK877707).[4] A post windmill is also recorded for Harby.
Harby of old
At one time it was within the parish of North Clifton.
White's Directory records that "North Clifton parish comprises the four villages and townships of North Clifton, South Clifton, Harby and Spalford, which maintain their poor separately, and contain together 1,107 inhabitants and 5.040 acres (20,400 m2) of land, now valued at £6,230, which was all exonerated from tithes at the enclosure, and anciently formed four manors of the Bishop of Lincoln's fee, and one of Roger de Bisli's, which in after times passed to the Lovelots, Pigotts and Willoughbys. North Clifton is a small village on the east bank of the Trent, 12½ miles north by east of Newark, near a long cliff, in which numerous fragments of urns, bones and scalps have been found, near the spot which is supposed to have been anciently occupied by a castle. The church, dedicated to St George, stands on an eminence between North and South Clifton, and was re-pewed in 1831. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at £7 6s, and now at £176, is enjoyed by the Rev. Frederick Parry Hodges D. D. The Rev. G.C. Gordon M.A. is the curate, and resides at the Vicarage House, South Clifton. The prebendary of North Clifton, in Lincoln Cathedral, is the patron and appropriator."[5]
References
- ^ "Area:Harby CP (parish)"
- ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ^ John Carmi Parsons, "Eleanor (1241–1290)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, United Kingdom: OUP, 2004) Retrieved 28 November 2015. Pay-walled.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire.Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
- ^ White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853
External links
- Newark and Sherwood District Council website for the village Village website
- Village website at: http://www.harby.org.uk
 | This Nottinghamshire location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |