Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Horncastle. You may be able to find further references to Horncastle in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Horncastle	soke	Bartholomew
HORNCASTLE	a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a soke	Imperial
Horncastle (or South Lindsey) Division	parlimentary division	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Horncastle within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	1
Thomas Pennant	June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Low Toynton	0	2
High Toynton	0	2
Thimbleby	0	2
Langton	0	2
Mareham on the Hill	0	2
Dalderby	0	2
Thornton	0	2
West Ashby	0	2
Edlington	0	2
Scrafield	0	2
Martin	0	2
Gartree	0	2
Scrivelsby	2	2
Greetham	0	2
Hameringham	0	2
Roughton	0	2
Fulletby	0	2
Winceby	0	2
Wispington	0	2
Moorby	0	2