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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWarwickshire 
Ecclesiastical parishHarborough Magna All Saints 
HundredKnightlow 
Poor Law unionRugby 

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:

BaptismsMarriagesBurials
1540-19681540-19741540-1938

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:


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.