There is very little evidence of any human settlement or activity in the parish of Honing until the medieval period and beyond, apart from a Mesolithic or possibly Neolithic flint axehead.

"[4] Honing has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085 where it, its population, land ownership and productive resources were extensively detailed.

The disused North Walsham and Dilham Canal runs along the south-west boundary of the parish.

[10] In the same period of restoration the aisles were reduced to narrow passages and the length of the chancel was shortened to only four feet.

[10] Honing Hall is a Grade II* listed[13] country house which was built in 1748[14] and altered and renovated in 1790 by the prominent architect John Soane.

The house was built for a wealthy worsted weaver called Andrew Chambers[15] on the land once occupied by previous dwellings.

[15] The nearest railway station is Worstead on the Bittern Line; Greater Anglia operates regular services between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich.

The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway ran through the parish, as part of a line that linked Yarmouth Beach and Sutton Bridge, via Stalham, North Walsham, Aylsham North, Melton Constable, Fakenham West and South Lynn.

In addition to the disused platforms at Honing station, other remnants of the line that can still be seen in the parish are a cast iron, steel and brick railway bridge of 1881 on the Dilham road south of the village.

[19] Some sections of the trackbed survive as part of the Weavers' Way shared-use path, which passes across the south-east corner of the parish.