A short distance north-east of the village is a vehicle proving ground that was formerly a Royal Air Force station.

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.

"Honiley, Coleshill, and other places in Warwickshire were at this period the property of Sir Simon Mountfort, and he was appointed by King Edward IV (according to the 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.

"The large Manor house or Hall, probably built by this family, was most pleasantly situated on a gentle eminence, and was taken down in 1803 by the Rev.

Thus fell another ancient 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.