HARBONE, or HARBORNE, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 8 miles (S. W.by W.) from Birmingham, containing, with the hamlet of Smethwick, 3350 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books at £4, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a tower in the later style of English architecture, and has lately received an addition of three hundred and sixty sittings, of which two hundred and sixty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £250 towards defraying the expense. A schoolroom, built by subscription, has been endowed by Mr. Heavy Hinckley with three tenements producing an income of £24. 15. a year, for which sum forty children receive free instruction.