ON an extensive moor, about four miles north of Tattershall, and about
six miles south west of Horncastle, stands the remain of a brick
building, called from its situation the _Tower on the Moor_. It was
built by the Lord Treasurer Cromwell, and is supposed to have been an
appendage to the castle at Tattershall, from which place it is plainly
visible, by reason of the flatness of the intervening country. {96}
[Picture: Tower on the Moor]
Of this tower only an octangular turret remains, to which fragments of
the walls adhere; it is about sixty feet in height, and contains winding
stairs of brick, now in a very ruinous condition. Traces of the fosse,
by which it was surrounded, are still visible.
GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY
OF THE
SOKE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD OF HORNCASTLE.