Horninghold is a small village and parish seven miles north-east of Market Harborough

Market Harborough

Market Harborough is a market town within the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.It has a population of 20,785 and is the administrative headquarters of Harborough District Council. It sits on the Northamptonshire-Leicestershire border...

 in the county of Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

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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

Belvoir

Belvoir , in some cases pronounced "beever", may refer to:*Belvoir, Doubs, a commune in the Doubs département of France*Belvoir, Leicestershire, a village in Leicestershire, England**Vale of Belvoir, an area of England...

 where it remained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...

 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

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 without Victorian restoration

Victorian restoration

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External links

Village Web Site

Ordnance Survey Map of Village from multimap

Photographs of village from Geograph

History of Horninghold

Photographs inside Horninghold Church from Flickr

Amset Centre Bridgford House - Carbon Neutral home

Amset Centre Renewable Energy consultancy in Hornighold