page_title: Barby, Northamptonshire
section_title: Economic and social history
hierarchical_section_title: Barby, Northamptonshire / Economic and social history
caption_attribution_description: English: Barby Mill, Northamptonshire, and fish pond in evening sunlight
context_page_description: Barby is a village and civil parish about 5 miles north of Daventry in Northamptonshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,336. Barby is located right off the M45 motorway a short spur from the M1 motorway to the A45 Trunk Road.
  To the northwest and southwest the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with Warwickshire, and the village is only about 4 miles southeast of Rugby. Rains Brook, a tributary of the River Leam, forms the parish and county boundary northwest of the village.
  The village is near the top of a hill that rises to 551 feet above sea level south of the village. Barby's toponym comes from the Old Norse Bergbýr, meaning "hill dwelling".
context_section_description: The Oxford Canal was dug through the parish in the early 1770s, passing about 1 ¹⁄₂ miles (2.4 km) west of the village. In 1774 it opened from Bedworth in Warwickshire as far south as Napton-on-the-Hill. The nearest wharf was outside Willoughby, about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Barby. The canal reached Oxford at the end of 1789.
  South of Barby village is an early 19th-century former tower mill, which has been converted into a private home.
  The Great Central Main Line from Nottingham Victoria to London Marylebone was built through the west of the parish in the 1890s and opened in 1899. Its nearest railway station was at Willoughby Wharf. The railway station was renamed twice, the second time in 1938 when the London and North Eastern Railway renamed it Braunston and Willoughby.
  British Railways closed Braunston and Willoughby railway station in 1957. The M45 motorway was built through the parish in the late 1950s and opened in 1959, passing about ¹⁄₂ mile (800 m) north of the village. In 1963 The Reshaping of British Railways report recommended that British Railways close the railway, which it did in 1966.
caption: Barby Mill, now a private home
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