Horninghold

Horninghold
Horninghold is located in Leicestershire
Horninghold
Horninghold
Location within Leicestershire
Population278 
OS grid referenceSP810968
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMarket Harborough
Postcode districtLE16
Dialling code01858
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Leicestershire
52°33′47″N 0°48′22″W / 52.5631°N 0.80612°W / 52.5631; -0.80612

Horninghold is a small village and parish seven miles north-east of Market Harborough in the county of Leicestershire. The population of the civil parish (including Allexton and Stockerston) was 278 at the 2021 census.[1]

The village's name means 'wood belonging to the people of Horning'.[2]

Following the Norman Conquest in 1066 the village was given to Robert de Todeni, Lord of Belvoir. In about 1076 he gave the parish to Belvoir Priory where it remained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the estate owners, the Hardcastle family remodelled the village as a garden village with many trees and shrubs.

The church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building.[3] It was built in the 12th century and is a surviving example of a Church of England parish church without Victorian restoration.[4][dubious – discuss]

References

  1. ^ "Horninghold (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". City Population. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Church of St. Peter, Horninghold (Grade II*) (1360671)". National Heritage List for England.
  4. ^ "Home". www.horninghold.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

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