The oldest part appears to be the three-stage tower, probably from the earlier half of the 14th century.

[6][7]The church belongs to High Framland group of six parishes,[8] whose rector is Rev.

Harston is served by three weekday buses a day between Melton Mowbray and Grantham.

The main A607 road between Melton Mowbray and Grantham runs to the south of the village.

The name of the village derives from the Old English hār-tūn meaning grey or boundary stone.

Stanton Ironworks Company had started quarrying in 1883 at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, just over the border in Lincolnshire to the north of Harston.

The company opened its first quarry in Harston in 1888, south of Denton Road to the east of the village.

The ore was taken by a short narrow-gauge tramway to the terminus of a standard-gauge mineral branch of the Great Northern Railway (GNR).

The Stanton company opened another quarry to the north of the road in 1889, also served by the same tramway.

Ore from it was loaded into lorries, which took it to a tipping dock at the head of the British Railways branch.