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Horninghold VillageHorninghold Le, Horniwale in the Domesday Book, Horninvald in the Charter Rolls 1106, Horningewald in the Pipe Rolls of 1163. At the beginning of the 20th Century, Thomas Hardcastle and later his son, T. A. Hardcastle turned Horninghold into a 'garden village'. They erected stone, brick and half-timbered houses in a neat and symmetrical pattern and surrounded them with ornamental shrubs and a variety of trees. Each house restored in this project contains a plaque with date of re-construction. Between 1903 and 1913 H.L.Goddard worked in the village on the re-modeling project. In the centre of the village is a triangular green on which stands the village sign made from oak and paid for with prize-money won when the village was judged the prettiest in Leicestershire in 1953.
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