HORNING, a parish in the hundred of TUNSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Acle, containing 440 inhabitants. The living is a dischargedvicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich. In the reign of Henry III. here was an hospital, dedicated to. St. James, and under the government of the almoner of St. Benedict's abbey; it was given to the Bishop of Norwich. The mitred abbey of St. Benedict was only, a hermitage in the year 800, and was raised into a monastery of Black monks before 1020, by Canute: the barony and reversion were given in exchange to the; Bishop of Norwich, in 1535; its revenue was valuedat £583. 17.