Barby is a village

Village

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 and civil parish in the Daventry district

Daventry (district)

The Daventry district is the largest local government district of western Northamptonshire, England. The district is named after the town of Daventry which is the administrative headquarters and largest town...

 of Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

, England

England

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. the parish had a population of 2,083.

Location

Barby is located approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Rugby

Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...

, and about 7 miles north of Daventry

Daventry

Daventry is a market town in Northamptonshire, England, with a population of 22,367 .-Geography:The town is also the administrative centre of the larger Daventry district, which has a population of 71,838. The town is 77 miles north-northwest of London, 13.9 miles west of Northampton and 10.2...

. The village is located upon a hill overlooking the Rains Brook

Rains Brook

Rains Brook is a brook and tributary of the River Leam. The source of the brook is near Kilsby in Northamptonshire, it then runs west in the valley south of Rugby and forms the border between Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. It then runs south-west to Kites Hardwick where it joins the River Leam....

 and Leam

River Leam

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 valleys. The Oxford Canal

Oxford Canal

The Oxford Canal is a narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Coventry via Banbury and Rugby. It connects with the River Thames at Oxford, to the Grand Union Canal at the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the-Hill, and to the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury Junction in Bedworth just...

 is about 1 mile west running north and south and the M45 motorway

M45 motorway

The M45 is a motorway in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, England and is long. It runs from Junction 17 of the M1 motorway south east of Rugby and ends with a junction with the A45 road southwest of Rugby...

 runs just north of the village.

Facilities

The village contains two garden centres, one is no longer open and the site is used to house limo's, a pub, a general shop and post office

Post office

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, and a Church of England

Church of England

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 primary school.

The village church is dedicated to St Mary is of pink sandstone and has an interesting blue clock face. The church has an Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon

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 window and probably date from the 13th and 14th centuries. The rectory is dated 1869.

In 1965 Owen Maclaren

Owen Maclaren

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 designed and patented the first baby buggy at Arnold House, a restored medieval farmhouse. Three bus routes used to run through the village, the 205, 207 and 208 run by First, linking it with Rugby

Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...

, Northampton

Northampton

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, Crick

Crick, Northamptonshire

Crick is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. It is close to the border with Warwickshire, west of Rugby and north-west of Northampton. The villages of Crick and West Haddon were by-passed by the A428 main road from Rugby to Northampton when the...

 and other surrounding villages. However, due to Stagecoach in Warwickshire

Stagecoach in Warwickshire

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 taking control of these routes, only one route (Route 10) now runs, to Rugby. Barby Cricket Ground is located opposite the windmill on Longdown Lane and the club runs successful men's, women's and junior sides.

After many years of barby not having a regular bus link to daventry there is finally is one.

History

Barby's name came from Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 Bergbýr meaning "hill dwelling"; like Rugby, Kilsby

Kilsby

Kilsby is a village and civil parish in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England situated approximately five miles south-east of Rugby....

, Badby

Badby

Badby is a village and a rural parish of about in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire, England.-Location:Badby is about south of Daventry, on the A361 Daventry to Banbury road. It is bisected west to east, at about above sea level, by the upper reaches of the River Nene...

 and Oadby

Oadby

Oadby is a town within the borough of Oadby and Wigston, in Leicestershire, England. It is to the east of Wigston Magna, and to the southeast of Leicester. Oadby forms part of the Leicester Urban Area, and is situated on the A6 road....

 it was probably settled or renamed by Viking

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s.

The Motte

Motte

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 and earthworks from a Norman

Normans

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 castle can be found on the northern edge of the village, off Castle Mound road. There is no Bailey

Motte

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 The lost village of Onley

Onley (lost settlement)

The lost village of Onley is located within the parish of Barby in the English county of Northamptonshire. The site is bordered on the north by the M45 motorway. On the east are Onley and Rye Hill prisons, and on the south-west is the A45 road...

 is located in the north-west corner of Barby parish. During the Second World War there was a Prisoner of War

Prisoner of war

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 camp in the village. A map of the old village with photographs can be found in the recently-enlarged village hall

Village hall

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, next to which can be found a children's play area of some size. There was a windmill

Windmill

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to the south of the village which is still standing, although the sails have been taken off and it has been converted into a private residence.