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Bridge Street. Horncastle sits at the crossroads of two major Lincolnshire roads: the east–west A158, joining the county town of Lincoln with the resort of Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast, and the north–south A153 joining Louth with Sleaford and Grantham in the south. These meet at the Bull Ring in central Horncastle.
The river in Horncastle. The River Bain is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Witham. [1] [2]The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds at Ludford, [3] a village on The Viking Way long-distance footpath, and flows through or past the villages of Burgh on Bain, Biscathorpe, Donington on Bain, Goulceby, Asterby and Hemingby before reaching the town of Horncastle where ...
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The Dispensary, North Street. 1866. [33] Horncastle Public Dispensary was originally founded by Sir Joseph Banks in 1789. Re-built in North Street in 1866, to designs by Bellamy and Hardy, at a cost of £1,026.10s.11d. Converted in 1924 into the War Memorial Hospital. White gault bricks with ashlar and red brick dressings. Welsh slate hipped ...
River Bain (Horncastle Canal) looking south towards Kirkby on Bain from atop Red Mill Bridge. To the north stretches the shallow glacial valley of the River Bain. Along the valley floor and flood plain the land is largely pastoral farmland used for rearing cattle and sheep, whilst further away from the river the land is more arable.
A branch line was opened from Kirkstead to Horncastle via Woodhall Spa by the Horncastle Railway on 11 August 1855 by which time the station was known as Kirkstead. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] The Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway , known locally as the "New Line", opened in 1913 leaving the Loop Line just south of Woodhall Junction and cut across the fens ...
The Horncastle Canal was a broad canal which ran 11 miles (18 km) from the River Witham to Horncastle in Lincolnshire, England, [1] through twelve locks [2] largely following the course of the River Bain. The canal opened in 1802, and was abandoned for navigation in 1889.
Bridge over the River Bain. The town takes its name from the Old Norse konungr meaning "King" and the Old Norse noun by meaning "settlement", which gives "settlement of the King". [5] Coningsby is about 7 miles (11 km) south of Horncastle on the A153 Horncastle to Sleaford road, with the Lincolnshire Wolds to the east and the Fens to the west.