1 A Neolithic axe or adze (2/c) was ploughed up at Harbury Fields Farm about 1921. In a private collection.
Findspot - an axe dating to the Neolithic period was found 900m south west of Harbury Field.
1 Bag of Roman pottery collected at Harbury Fields Farm and recorded 1971.
Findspot - pottery dating to the Roman period was found 1.1km south west of Harbury Field.
1 Two houses are marked.
2 There is some evidence of earthworks indicating two house platforms in the field to the W of the church.
An estate map from 1813 marks the site of two houses which are now only visible as earthwork house platforms. The site is situated to the west of the church, Harbury.
1 A copper George II halfpenny was found in the garden of Manor Farm between 1930 and 1940. The coin was presented to Warwick museum by the owner in ...
Findspot - a coin dating to the Imperial period was found in Harbury.
1 Intensive spread of Romano British grey wares. The material is with the landowner. The spread of pottery is most intense on the NE side of the hill just below ...
The possible site of a settlement dating to the Roman period which has been identified from finds of pottery. It is located 700m east of East Fields Farm.
4 A small sub-rectangular enclosure has been identified from air photographs.
The site of an enclosure, of unknown date, which is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is located 100m south of Harbury Field.
I came to live in Harbury in 1933 and in April 1939 married my late husband, Raymond Ceney and lived with his widowed mother Mrs Sarah Ceney in the cottage ...
Leamington Spa Courier – February 13th 1959
Harbury is mourning the loss of Mrs. Eleanor Overton, a noted village character, whose funeral was reported in our last issue. “Old Mother Overton,” ...
In 1913 Mr Thornicroft went to the Wagstaffe School aged three and a half. He left at the age of seven, when he went to the Wight School. At this ...
My most vivid memory of the Wight School, which I attended in the late 1920s to 1933, is the mass of steel nibbed pens which hung from the rafters of ...
By 1939 the Co-op employed 18 people including Mr. Honiwell (the Manager), Mr. Carter (the Head Shopman), Mr. S. Knight (the Secretary), Mrs. Holder (the Draper), Mr. A. Austin and ...
My mother, father, Allan, our two children and myself were educated at the Wight School. I myself started when I was two and a half years old, mainly I think ...
We thought you might like this article from the Parish Magazine in July 1884. You can imagine the writer getting more and more incensed as he wrote!
Incendiary Fires
We have only ...
The two shocking fatalities at Harbury on Thursday and Friday last week, threw the usually quiet village into a state of great excitement.
The first refers to George Frederick Verney (27) ...
(continued from part one)
Thomas Berry, a haulier, residing at Harbury, said that about 10 minutes to 11 on Thursday night, as he was going to bed, Mrs Verney came into ...
Butchers shops
Mr. Alcock’s at the corner of the High Street is now Phoenix House. An earlier butcher there was Mr. Horley. Next door, at the house opposite the Co-op, was Mr. ...