Barby
| Barby | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
 Barby war memorial, with St Mary's parish church behind | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP543703 |
| Location: | 52°19’41"N, 1°12’17"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,336 (2011) |
| Post town: | Rugby |
| Postcode: | CV23 |
| Dialling code: | 01788 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Northamptonshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Daventry |
| Website: | Barby & Onley Parish Council |
Barby is a village and parish in Northamptonshire, about five miles north of Daventry. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,336.[1] Barby is located right off the M45 motorway a short spur from the M1 motorway to the A45 Trunk Road.
To the north-west and south-west the parish boundary forms part of the county border with Warwickshire, and the village is only about four miles south-east of Rugby in that county. Rains Brook, a tributary of the River Leam, forms the parish boundary and county border north-west of the village.
The village is near the top of a hill that rises to 551 ft above sea level south of the village. Barby's toponym comes from the Old Norse Bergbýr, meaning "hill dwelling".
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Archaeology
North of the village is a Norman motte and earthworks but no bailey.[2] It is called Barby Castle but is really the site of an early fortified manor house.[3] The abandoned village of Onley is in the north-west of the parish.[3]
Parish church
The oldest part of the Church of England parish church of St Mary is a Saxon window west of the south doorway. The windows in the north wall of the chancel were inserted about 1300, which is when the west tower was built.[4] The church is a Grade-II* listed building.[5]
The tower has a ring of five bells. The third bell was cast at Leicester in about 1599. Hugh II Watts, who had foundries at Leicester and Bedford, cast the second bell in 1622. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble bell in about 1871. John Taylor & Co of Loughborough cast the fourth and tenor bells in 1922. At the same time Taylor's also cast the sanctus bell.[6]
Barby Rectory was built in 1869.[2] St Mary's is part of a single benefice with St Faith's, Kilsby.[7]
Economic and social history
The Oxford Canal was dug through the parish in the early 1770s, passing about a mile and a half west of the village. In 1774 it opened from Bedworth in Warwickshire as far south as Napton-on-the-Hill. The nearest wharf was outside Willoughby, about two miles south-west of Barby. The canal reached Oxford at the end of 1789.
South of Barby village is an early 19th-century former tower mill,[8] which has been converted into a private home.
The Great Central Main Line from Nottingham Victoria to London Marylebone was built through the west of the parish in the 1890s and opened in 1899. Its nearest railway station was at Willoughby Wharf. The railway station was renamed twice, the second time in 1938 when the London and North Eastern Railway renamed it Braunston and Willoughby.
In the Second World War there was a prisoner-of-war camp in the parish.
British Railways closed Braunston and Willoughby railway station in 1957. The M45 motorway was built through the parish in the late 1950s and opened in 1959, passing about half a mile north of the village. In 1963 The Reshaping of British Railways report recommended that British Railways close the railway, which it did in 1966.
In 1965 Owen Maclaren designed and patented the first baby buggy at Arnold House, a restored mediæval farmhouse.
Amenities
The village has a Church of England primary school.[9] There are a pub, the Arnauld Arms, a general shop and post office, a garden centre, a village hall and a children's play area.
Barby Cricket Ground is in Longdown Lane opposite the windmill. The club plays in the Warwickshire League and has men's, women's and junior sides.
References
- ↑ "Area: Barby (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120345&c=Barby&d=16&e=62&g=6450890&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1426715133646&enc=1. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pevsner & Cherry 1961, p. 101.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 RCHME 1981, pp. 12–14.
- ↑ Pevsner & Cherry 1961, pp. 100–101.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1226297: Church of St Mary (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Dawson, George (6 October 2013). "Barby S Mary or Church Barby". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Barby&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=BARBY. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ↑ Archbishops' Council (2015). "Benefice of Barby with Kilsby". A Church Near You. Church of England. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=28/011BW. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1040046: Barby Corn Mill (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Barby C of E Primary School
Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
- RCHME, ed (1981). An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire. 3, Archaeological Sites in North-West Northamptonshire. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 12–14. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol3/pp12-14.
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