BARBY, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Daventry, containing, with the hamlet of Onely, 645 inhabitants., The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £30. 2. 11., and in the patronage of the Rev. C. Williams. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Oxford canal crosses the parish. Property for charitable uses is vested in feoffees, and out of the produce thereof £20 per annum is paid for the daily instruction of twenty-four children, and £4 per annum to the master of a Sunday school.