Horningtoft is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the English county of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. It covers an area of and had a population of 135 in 54 households at the 2001 census,Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. reducing to a population of 127 in 53 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

of Breckland. The villages name means 'Curtilage of the Horningas (= dwellers at the horn-shaped piece of land)'. The village approximately 5 miles north of East Dereham. It is close to the villages of Whissonsett and Brisley. The village has a

Danish Camp Danish Camp is an Iron Age fortified settlement in Shoeburyness in Essex. It is a Scheduled Monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, list number 1017206. The site is in the Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges nature res ...

to its eastern end.

Notable residents

* Legendary English cricketer

Fuller Pilch Fuller Pilch (17 March 1804 – 1 May 1870) was an English first-class cricketer, active from 1820 to 1854. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled at a slow pace with a roundarm action. Pilch played in a total of 229 first-class matches for a ...

(1804–1870) was born in the village.

Notes

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Horningtoft Breckland District Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub