A History of Horncastle

In dealing with what may be called “the dark ages” of local history, we are often compelled to be content with little more than reasonable conjecture.  Still, there are generally certain surviving data, in place-names, natural features, and so forth, which enable those who can detect them, and make use of them, to piece together something like a connected outline of what we may take, with some degree of probability, as an approximation to what have been actual facts, although lacking, at the time, the chronicler to record them.