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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]

There is one stone cottage from the 16th/17th century, which was the old Rectory, but the remainder of the village buildings date from the rebuilding of the village by the Hardcastles of Blaston Hall between 1882 and 1911. This rebuild was in the form of a model “garden” village, and the buildings still retain original early 17th century features.

Horninghold House dates from the rebuild, and after the Second World War its stables were used as a clothing factory.

The population at the time of Domesday (1086) was 13. This gradually rose to around 100 by the late 17th century. Census returns show populations of 76 in 1801, 97 in 1891, and 124 in 1911, but this had dropped back to 86 in 1951.

Full details of the manor of Horninghold can be found on the site of the Leicestershire Victoria County History.