AT the time of compiling the Domesday record, there appears to have been
included other parishes, in addition to those now comprised in this soke;
but it cannot now be ascertained at what time the alteration took place.
Beside the parish of Horncastle it at present contains the following
townships:—Thimbleby, West Ashby, Low Tointon, High Tointon, Mareham on
the Hill, Roughton, Haltham, Wood Enderby, Moorby, Wilksby, Mareham le
Fen, and Coningsby. To these have lately been added Langriville and
Thornton le Fen, portions of the fen district, which had been sold by the
commissioners appointed under an act of enclosure, and rendered parochial
by act of parliament in 1812. On the enclosure of these fens, under the
act which was obtained in 1801, the whole of the parishes in this soke,
excepting the two newly formed ones, had portions of land allotted to
them, in lieu of their right of common.
West Ashby, High Tointon, Mareham on the Hill, and Wood Enderby, were
formerly hamlets of the parish of Horncastle; but have for several years
been considered as distinct parishes, and have appointed their own
churchwardens and overseers of the poor.