[1] Harby is in the Rutland and Melton constituency; the current MP is the Conservative Alicia Kearns.

Robert de Bucy owns 1 carucute of land at Harby and leases it to Gerard.

"Harby, in olde deedes written Herdeby in the Hundred of Framland, standing in the Vale of Bever upon the border of Nottinghamshire.

In the 20. yeere of Edward the third, William Lord Ros, and John de Oreby held lands heere.

In this Towne was borne Jeffrey de Hardby a famous Dvuine, brought up in Oxford, and after became one of the Canons of the Abbey of Leicester; from whence he came to be Confessor to King Edward the third, and was by him made one of his Privy Council of state.

He wrote many books of special note in Divinity, and died in London, and was buried in the Austin Fryers.

Here also was borne Robert de Hardby, a Frier Carmelite in Lincolne, who wrote something in praise of the saide Order, and lived 1450.

A heavy clay spreads over every acre in the parish and the uniform operations of husbandry give a sameness to the country, which a stranger might view with disgust; but cultivation has made it fruitful.... Industry here makes the prospect, and the product alone is the beauty of the soil.

There are about 1800 acres in the parish; and, whilst the field continued open, the method of tillage was, first-year fallow; second, barley and wheat; third, beans and pease.

There is no mansion or ancient building in the village; but the present rector has lately built a neat and convenient house...."In 1831 the Reverend John Curtis described Harby in his book, A Topographical History of the County of Leicester.

It opened under the Rector, William Evans Hartopp, in about 1827, on land donated by John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland.

A new school building opened on 25 March 1861, probably on the site of a village green, under a church committee headed by Rev.

It had two main teaching classrooms, a large kitchen, toilets to the rear, and accommodation for the teacher consisting of a downstairs study and three upper rooms.

A new kitchen was built at the rear and a boiler house in the style of the old school added.

[8] [9] Methodists had begun to hold services from 1769 in their homes, and then in an old coach house given by William Orson for chapel conversion in April 1828.

By 1847 the Wesleyan congregation had outgrown the coach house, which was replaced by a chapel built on Orson's land.

The foundation stone was laid by C. H. Clark, a Nottingham solicitor, and opening sermons were preached by Rev.

[10] In 1926 a new two-manual pipe organ by E. Wragg & Son of Nottingham was installed at a cost of £210, but it was removed when the chapel was modernised for its current use by the Vale Christian Fellowship.

The earliest church on the site was probably made of wood, of which there is evidence in the west wall of the nave.

The first window in the north wall of the chancel nearest to the nave has three panes showing the letter W or VV.

We do not know if this is left from Mediaeval times when all other stained glass was deliberately removed, or dates from after the Reformation in 1539.

As a celebration, he donated to the church a new clock, a bible, a prayer book, and £30 with the rector to be invested for the poor.

The organ was built at Thomas Elliot's works in Tottenham Court Road, London.

The font is from the Decorated period and presumably stood in the pre-Reformation position by the front door, in line with Catholic practice.

The font now stands in the northeast corner of the north aisle where the organ sat before the vestry was built in 1901.

The parchment skins of an early volume of Harby Parish Registers, long lost, are said to have been unstitched and wrapped around the trunk and limbs of the corpse of Anne Adcock, and so buried by her grandson, John Adcock, a man of eccentric character, in December 1776.

E. Manners of Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire Died: 2 October 1852 at Parish Rectory, Harby, Leicestershire Parents: Richard Norman 1758–1847 Lady Elizabeth Isabella Manners 1976–1853Married: Charlotte Elizabeth Ralph, born 1828 Cork, Ireland Issue: James Richard Norman 1868–1927 The memorial inscription reads: In memory of the Revd.

The steel brace which joins the two parts together was made by Mr. Martin Stead, the village blacksmith."

Originally there were three: Harby is almost equidistant at 7 miles (11 km) from the A46 between Leicester and Newark-on-Trent and the A52 trunk road between Nottingham and Grantham.

The wharf of Grantham Canal was formerly used to ship grain from the village windmill in Colston Lane, but is now closed.