Parishes. No. of In 1801. In 1811. Families in 1588. Houses. Persons. Houses. Persons. Horncastle 164 424 2015 553 2622 Thimbleby 40 50 224 65 316 West Ashby 44 67 297 76 370 Low 12 9 49 16 98 Tointon High 18 14 93 24 121 Tointon Mareham on 22 22 110 23 122 the Hill Roughton 30 23 110 22 106 Haltham 25 29 115 29 143 Wood 24 30 153 31 183 Enderby Moorby 19 24 79 24 105 Wilksby 6 9 54 9 53 Mareham le 87 98 383 104 487 Fen Coningsby 221 302 1301 326 1658 BAUMBER. THE village of Baumber or Bamburgh is situated in the hundred of Gartree, about four miles northward of Horncastle, on the turnpike road leading from that place to Lincoln. In the Domesday survey it is called Badeburgh, which perhaps may signify Bane burgh, or a town on the Bane, that river forming the eastern boundary of the parish. At the period of making that survey, Ulf and Gilbert de Gand are mentioned as proprietors. {55} [Picture: Stourton Hall, Baumber, Seat of Joseph Livesey, Esquire] The manor, together with the adjoining hamlet of Stourton parva, once belonged to Thomas Dighton, Esquire, whose daughter and heiress was married to Edward Clinton, second son of the first Earl of Lincoln. On failure of male issue in the elder branch the earldom devolved to the son of this Edward, whose successors afterwards had the Dukedom of Newcastle conferred on them. These estates continued in the possession of this family until the latter part of the last century, when they were sold to Thomas Livesey, Esquire, of Blackbourn, in the county of Lancaster, whose son, the present proprietor resides thereon, in an elegant mansion, which was completed in 1810. Part of the residence of the Earls of Lincoln is still standing.