Honiley
| Honiley | ||
|---|---|---|
Shire county | ||
| Region | ||
| Country | England | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Honiley is a small village and former
2001 Census recorded a parish population of 62.[1] Honiley was merged with adjoining parishes on 1 April 2007 and can now be found under Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall.[2]
History
The
medieval moat, a hotel and a small business park. A short distance north-east of the village is a vehicle proving ground that was formerly a Royal Air Force station. Opened in May 1941 the station was originally called RAF Ramsey but was renamed RAF Honiley three months later. It ceased to operate in March 1958 and the buildings were demolished in 1960 although new ones have replaced them. Honiley has a VOR station that is a major waypoint for aircraft.[4]
"'Honiley', [King Edward IV. was arrested in the year 1469 by Archbishop Neville, with an armed band of horse, at Honiley in Warwickshire, and not at Ulney in Northamptonshire, or Olney in Buckinghamshire, as had been previously stated by several historians. This seizure was made by the advice of the Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick. The King was then taken to Warwick Castle, from thence to York, and afterwards to Middleham Castle, from whence he escaped.
"Honiley,
Patent Rolls in Rymer) one of the Commissioners to raise the county of Warwick in 1470. As it appears that Mountfort made Honiley his principal residence, it is very probable, from the intimacy subsisting between them, that when the King required a place of concealment, he selected Honiley for the purpose, which was somewhat more than "foure miles from Warwycke," as stated by a historian—for it is six. Honiley became forfeited to the Crown
by the attainder of Mountfort in 1495.
"The large
baronial residence, a sacrifice to bad taste and ruinous economy... "... The Queen Elizabeth I visited Kenilworth Castle again in July 1575 for 19 days, when, according to Laneham, she hunted "the hart of force" in the Chase, and probably visited Honiley Hall, which place was at the extremity of his woods, about three miles from the Castle. At this period the manor of Honiley belonged to the Earl of Leicester."[6]
References
- ^ "Area selected: Warwick (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
- ^ "The Warwick (Parishes) Order 2007" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ a b Pevsner & Wedgwood 1966, p. 312.
- ^ "Honiley VOR-DME (HON) @ OurAirports". www.ourairports.com.
- ^ Duignan, William Henry, Warwickshire Place Names (Oxford University Press, 1912)
- ^ Reader, W., ‘Old Manor House at Honiley’, The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1848, pp. 141–42
Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wedgwood, Alexandra (1966). Warwickshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 312–313.
- Smith, B (1990). Hidden Warwickshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 1-85306-098-4.
- Styles, Philip, ed. (1945). A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 3: Barlichway Hundred. Victoria County History. pp. 120–123.
External links
Media related to Honiley at Wikimedia Commons
