Harbury, United Kingdom

At the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279 two windmills were recorded in the parish. The present brick-built tower mill in Mill Lane is late 18th-century. It is disused and has no sails. The earliest known bridge over the river Itchen at Deppers Bridge was built by the Lords of the Manor of Ladbroke. It is known to have existed by 1397, when it was out of repair and their lordships were ordered to have it renewed. In 1611 the legacy of Thomas Wagstaff, late Lord of the Manor, established a school in the parish. An inscribed panel on the building records that his will was contested until settled by a Decree in Chancery in 1637. The former schoolhouse is an early 17th-century building of limestone, with mullioned and transomed windows, a schoolroom and Tudor fireplaces.

The cover of a silver chalice from the parish church is inscribed Harberbery 1576. Christopher Saxton's 1576 map of Warwickshire and Leicestershire marks the village as Harburbury. An open field system prevailed in the parish until the Harbury Inclosure Act 1779 (19 Geo. 3. c. 35 Pr.) was implemented, enclosing 120 yardlands (3,600 acres (1,457 ha)) of common land. The earliest known record of a post office in the village is from September 1847, when a type of postmark called an undated circle was issued. The Harbury Heritage Group maintains a heritage room at the village primary school.