Great Harborough, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Harborough, Great, or Harborough Magna, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, 3¼ miles NW of Rugby. There is a post office under Rugby; money order office, Pailton; telegraph office, Brinklow. Acreage, 1393; population, 309. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; value, £555. The church is part of a very ancient one, supposed to have been monastic; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower, and has some very curiously stained glass. It was restored in 1869.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Harborough Magna All Saints | |
Hundred | Knightlow | |
Poor Law union | Rugby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Harborough Magna:
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
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1540-1968 | 1540-1974 | 1540-1938 |
Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Harborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harborough Magna (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.