The Author has to return his acknowledgements to those gentlemen who have so kindly favored him with communications. From Edmund Turnor, Esquire, of Stoke Rochford, he received several useful notices; and to his friend Mr. Richard Hill, lately of Islington, he is not only indebted for many important communications, but for great assistance in the arrangement of the work. The principal part of the chapter on Geology is extracted from “A Sketch of the Geology of the Lincolnshire Wolds, by Mr. Edward Bogg,” published in the third volume of the “Transactions of the Geological Society,” and the Author has to acknowledge the readiness with which Mr. Bogg permitted him to make use of this valuable paper. The list of plants was furnished by Mr. John Ward, of Horncastle, and the modern plan of the town by Mr. C. C. Cremer, of the same place; and to the accurate pencil of Mr. Thomas Espin of Louth, the Author is indebted for several of the views with which this volume is illustrated. Without this assistance he would not have been able to have combined in his work the information which it at present contains. April, 1820. CONTENTS. HORNCASTLE Situation 1 During the Roman and Saxon Governments 3 The Manor 7 During the Civil Wars in the Reign of 12 Charles the First Antiquities 25 The Church 29 The Grammar School 35 The River Bane and Navigable Canal 37 The Present State of the Town 39 SOKE OF HORNCASTLE 43 Thimbleby 43 West Ashby 44 Low Tointon 44 High Tointon 45 Mareham on the Hill 45 Roughton 46 Haltham 47 Wood Enderby 48 Moorby 48 Wilksby 48 Mareham le Fen 48 Coningsby 50 Langriville and Thornton le Fen 53 BAUMBER 55 EDLINGTON 57