Horninghold
Horninghold | |
Horninghold Horninghold shown within Leicestershire | |
OS grid reference | SP810968 |
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District | Harborough |
Shire county | Leicestershire |
Region | East Midlands |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Leicester |
Postcode district | LE16 8 |
Dialling code | 01858 |
Police | Leicestershire |
Fire | Leicestershire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
EU Parliament | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | Harborough |
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Horninghold is a small village and parish seven miles north-east of Market Harborough in the county of Leicestershire.
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 the priory of Belvoir 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's was built in the 12th Century and is a surviving example of a Parish Church without Victorian restoration.[1]
References
- ↑ http://www.horninghold.org.uk Village Web Site
External links
Media related to Horninghold at Wikimedia Commons Village Web Site
Ordnance Survey Map of Village from multimap
Photographs of village from Geograph
Photographs inside Horninghold Church from Flickr
Amset Centre Bridgford House - Carbon Neutral home
Amset Centre Renewable Energy consultancy in Hornighold