Horningsea Park

Horningsea Park was gazetted on 13 December 1996. The suburb of Horningsea Park was subdivided from Hoxton Park.

^{Horningsea Park and surrounding market gardens before the suburb of Horningsea Park was built, 1995}

Colonial Land Grants

The suburb is named after the farming estate established by Lieutenant Joshua John Moore, Clerk to the Colonial Judge Advocate and Registrar of the Governor’s Court. Moore named the property Horningsea Park after his birthplace of Horningsea in Cambridgeshire in England. The farm was the result of a grant of 200 hectares by Governor Macquarie in 1819.

Moore designed the house, which was built in the 1830s and still stands on Horningsea Park Drive today. The house is a two-storey Georgian style house that was once set on 500 acres. The property retains a long entrance driveway and some of the original large garden.

During the 1840s Paul Strzlecki, who named Kunama Namadgi Mt Kosciuszko in 1840, lived in Horningsea Park House. The Moore family sold the house in the 1850s.

In 1947, the house and a 60 acre block were separated from the remaining land which was subdivided in 1949.

^{Horningsea House, Horningsea Park Drive, March 1998}