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PUBLICATIONS
ABOUT HARBY

Anderson, John, 1976, Leicestershire Canals, bygones in camera. Privately printed.

 

Bevan Jane 2011, Foxhunting and the landscape between 1700 and 1900; with particular reference to

 

Norfolk and Shropshire. PhD. University of East Anglia, page 70 - 71.

 

Bourne, Jill, 1977, Place names of Leicestershire and Rutland. Leicestershire Libraries and Information Service. 

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British Geological Survey, 2002,  Melton Mowbray. England and Wales sheet 142, solid and drift geology. 1:50,000 series. Keyworth, British Geological survey.

 

Bradley, C. Reminiscences of Frank Gillard with the Belvoir Hounds 1860-1896.

 

Burton, William, 1622 The description of Leicestershire. Page 127 Harby.

 

Carney, J N, K Ambrose and A Brandon 2002, Geology of the Melton Mowbray district. Keyworth, British Geological survey.

 

Chaworth Musters, 1890 A Cavalier Stronghold, a romance of the vale of Belvoir. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & CO, London; James Bell, Nottingham.  

 

Cobbet, William 1832 A geographical dictionary of England and Wales. 

 

Cox, Barrie  2002 The Place-names of Leicestershire, part two, Framland Hundred, Nottingham :  English Place-name Society.

 

Cram Leslie,  Martin Henig and Keith Ambrose 2005, A stone “celtic” human head from Harby, Leicestershire, Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. 79, 91- 97.

 

Cram, Leslie edited, 2010 Harby: village life in the Vale of Belvoir. Harby: Harby History Group.

 

Cram, Leslie, 2012, Harby St Mary's Church: an historical guide. Harby: Harby History Group.

 

Dale, T F. 1899. A history of the Belvoir Hunt. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co.

 

Doyle Michael R P. 2009.Their name liveth for evermore : the Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland, volumes 1 - 5. Published by Michael Doyle.

 

Dewey, Laurie, 1968, Northeast Corner, Belvoir High School, in Melton library 942.546. Domesday Herdebi, 122 Herdeby.

 

Evelyn, Mary, 1927, The Cheese of the Country , Health, a Journal of Popular and Industrial Medicine, volume 6, number 40, pages  170 to 178.

 

Freeman, Roger A, 1994. UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now. London: After the Battle.

Gill, Josiah, 1909. The History of Wesleyan Methodism in Melton Mowbray and the Vicinity, 1769-1909. John Wartnaby Warner, Melton Mowbray.

Goodwin, Barry and Raymonde Glynne Owen, 1994, 207 squadron RAF Langar, 1942 - 1943.   

 

Halfpenny, Bruce Barrymore, 1991, Action Stations Volume 2:  Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.  Patrick Stephens Ltd.

 

Hartley, Robert F 1987, The Mediaeval Earthworks of North-east Leicestershire. Archaeological Reports Series, Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service. 

 

Haycock, David Boyd  and Patrick Wallis (eds), 2005 Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century

 

London: The Proprietary Medicine Business of Anthony Daffy. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

 

Henshaw, Alfred, 2003, The Great Northern Railway in the East Midlands: Nottingham - Grantham, Bottesford - Newark, Melton Mowbray, the Leicester Line and Ironstone Branches, Railway Correspondence and Travel Society

Hewlett H B 1935, The Quarries.

Hickman, Trevor 1992, Around Melton Mowbray in old photographs, Stroud, Nonsuch Publishing. Pocket edition 2007.

Hickman, Trevor 1994 The Vale of Belvoir. Britain in old photographs, Alan Sutton. Second edition 2004.

 

Hickman, Trevor 1995, The History of Stilton cheese, Alan Sutton. 

 

Honeybone, Michael, 1987, The Vale of Belvoir. Barraccuda Books. 

 

King,  W 1806, Tract of country surrounding Belvoir Castle.  

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Lawton, Pam and Marilyn Garner, 2000, Minutes in Time, the Story of Harby Women's Institute.

 

Liddle, Peter, 1982, Leicestershire Archaeology, the present state of knowledge. Volume 1, To the end of the Roman Period, Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service Archaeological Report no. 4.

Liddle, Peter, 1982, Leicestershire Archaeology, the present state of knowledge. Volume 2, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval Periods, Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service Archaeological Report no. 5.

 

Marrows, Hugh, 2003, The romantic canal, alongside the Grantham. Grantham Canal Partnership.

 

Nichols, John, 1815, reprinted 19 ? History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire. Harby is mentioned in part ii pages 209-213, and 422, part iii page 534.

 

Palmer, Marilyn ed., 1983, Leicestershire Archaeology, the present state of knowledge. Volume 3 Industrial Archaeology, Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service Archaeological Report no. 6.

 

Pevsner, Nicholaus, revise Elizabeth Williamson 1984, The buildings of England, Leicestershire and Rutland second edition, page 174. Penguin Books.

 

Pitt W 1809, A general view of the agriculture of the county of Leicestershire.

 

Prior John 1779, Map of Leicestershire.

 

Stapleford, Rex, 2006, A history of Harby cricket club 1919 to 1964. Privately printed.

Throsby 1798, Leicestershire views and excursions.

 

Tonks, Eric 1961, The ironstone railway and tramways of the Midlands. London, Locomotive Publishing Co.

 

Tonks  Eric, 1992,  The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands, history, operations and railways,Part  IX : Leicestershire. Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham.

 

Unigate Foods, Stilton from Harby.

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