SITUATION, &c.
HORNCASTLE is pleasantly situated at the foot of that bold and even range
of hills which, from their openness, have been termed the wolds. It is
nearly in the centre of the Lindsey division of the county of Lincoln,
and is the chief of a soke of fifteen parishes, to which it gives name.
The principal part of the town is built in an angle formed by the
confluence of two rivers, the Bane and the Waring, where an ancient
fortification formerly stood, the scite of which is still visible,
denoting it to have been a station of importance in early times.
The character of the place is however now completely changed. From a
military station it has become a situation of trade; and being surrounded
by a considerable number of villages, possesses one of the largest
markets in the county.
Its distance from the city of Lincoln is twenty-one miles, and eighteen
from the town of Boston.