47-520: Horncastle News is a weekly newspaper which serves Horncastle , Lincolnshire , England and the surrounding area. It was founded in 1885 by William Kirkham Morton, who already owned a printing and stationery business in the town. In 1958, the News and Mortons of Horncastle were facing closure when they were bought by Charles Edward “Teddy” Sharpe, owner of the Market Rasen Mail . From 1935 to 1969 it
94-450: A bear was baited , and likewise, a wild, fierce bull, before they were brought by vaqueros to an arena in a small amphitheatre in Monterey, California , to fight each other. He called the fight "a favorite, though barbarous sport." In this case, he said that the bear used its sharp claws against the nose of the bull, before catching its tongue, after being repeatedly gored by the bull. Then
141-461: A branch line from Kirkstead (later Woodhall Junction) through Woodhall Spa to Horncastle opened on 11 August 1855. The last passenger service ran in 1954, with complete closure to goods traffic in 1971. Horncastle railway station was demolished in the 1980s and replaced by housing. The nearest railway station now is Metheringham (15 miles, 24 km) on the Peterborough to Lincoln Line . Part of
188-404: A good bull-dog; likewise a Silver Collar of twenty-four shillings value, to the owner of the dog that shall pin the bull oftenest and fairest, and seven shillings and sixpence to the owner of the second best dog. But if none shall pin him, seven and sixpence will be given to the owner of the best, and five shillings to the owner of the second dog. N.B. No dog will be allowed to run unless produced at
235-437: A radius of about 30 feet. The object of the sport was for the dogs to immobilize the bull. Before the event started, the bull's nose was blown full of pepper to enrage it before the baiting. The bull was often placed in a hole in the ground. A variant of bull-baiting was "pinning the bull", where specially-trained dogs would set upon the bull one at a time, a successful attack resulting in the dog fastening his teeth strongly in
282-459: A year before a flood. The flooding of the early 1980s was attributed to the change of vicar in 1980, but there was no flooding after the change of vicar in 1999. The River Bain and River Waring overflowed during the 2007 United Kingdom floods . Flooding recurred in 2012. A £15 million, 30-year-old proposed flood-defence scheme was seen as unlikely to have prevented the 2012 flood, but new flood defences are being discussed. An anti-flood pump
329-655: Is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire , England. It is 17 miles (27 km) east of Lincoln . Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census and estimated at 7,123 in 2019. A section of the ancient Roman walls remains. Although fortified, Horncastle was not on any important Roman roads , which suggests that the River Bain was the principal route of access to it. Roman Horncastle has become known recently as Banovallum (i. e. Wall on
376-669: Is an amateur club based at The Wong. It joined the Lincolnshire Football League in the 1996/1997 season. The town's cricket club at Coronation Walk has two men's and five youth teams. Horncastle Hockey Club is a voluntary field-hockey body set up in November 1970 at Coronation Walk, Horncastle. In 2020 it had two men's and two women's teams and a junior section. Horncastle and District Tennis Club has served for over 70 years. Initially on grass courts in Stanhope Road,
423-619: Is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ‘Hornecastre’. It appears as ‘Hornecastra’ in the Pipe Rolls of 1130. The name means “the Roman fort in the tongue of land” between the River Bain and River Waring . The Roman walls remain in places. One section is on display in the town's library, which was built over the top of the wall. The Saxons called the town Hyrnecastre , from which its modern name derives. Horncastle
470-679: Is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book with 41 households, including 29 villagers and twelve smallholders, and had 100 acres (0 km ) of meadow and two mills, all belonging to King William . Dating from the 13th century, well before the Reformation , the Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. It is a Grade II* listed building in the Early English style , but was extensively restored 1859–1861 by Ewan Christian . Four miles out
517-737: Is still called the Bullring. In Kilkenny it took place at the site called The Ring, first in 1609, and commonly on the feast-day of John the Baptist (December 27). The last recorded bull-bait was in 1837, after they had become illegal under an 1835 Act. Bull-baiting also took place in Waterford , Naas , Drogheda , Tuam , Carrickfergus , Belfast and Athlone . In the 19th century, and during Spanish Colonial Rule , bulls used to be pitted against bears in California and Mexico. Kingsley (1920) said that
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#1732859255225564-514: Is the village of Winceby , where in 1643 the Battle of Winceby helped to gain Lincolnshire for Parliament , although its leader, Oliver Cromwell , was almost killed. Local legend has it that the 13 scythe blades hanging on the wall of the south chapel of St Mary's Church were used as weapons at Winceby, but this is mainly seen as apocryphal . The historical opinion is that they probably date from
611-541: The Belmont TV transmitter. BBC East Midlands and ITV Central can also be received from the Waltham TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Lincolnshire on 94.9 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Lincolnshire on 102.2 FM, Hits Radio Lincolnshire , which broadcasts on DAB and County Linx Radio that broadcast online. The Horncastle News is the town’s weekly local newspaper. Horncastle Town FC, founded in 1873,
658-588: The Lincolnshire Rising of 1536. Both theories on the scythes appear in the "Church History" Lincoln website. Horncastle was once a centre for cockfighting and bull-baiting . The Fighting Cocks remains the name of a local pub. Bull-baiting was practised in the area known as the Bull Ring. One historian finds that the practise continued until about 1810. Both these sports were banned in England and Wales under
705-777: The Second World War and the five years of the Churchill wartime government. The veteran politician Sir Peter Tapsell was MP for the town in 1966–1983 and 1997–2015, being Father of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. After a redistribution of parliamentary constituencies, Edward Leigh was MP from 1983–1997. In 2024 Victoria Atkins was re-elected as the Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle. Horncastle Primary School stands in Bowl Alley Lane. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
752-493: The 13th century. It would last for a week or more every August. In the 19th century it was probably the largest such event in the United Kingdom. The slogan, "Horncastle for horses", was a sign of the town's standing in this trade. The fair was George Borrow 's setting for some scenes in his semi-autobiographical books Lavengro and The Romany Rye . The last was held in 1948. Livestock markets continued for pigs and cattle,
799-554: The B1190, then the A158 at the B1190 junction, following Accommodation Road to the east and skirting the north of the town along Elmhurst Road, past Elmhurst Lakes, to reach West Ashby at the River Bain near Hemingby Lane. At the 2021 census, Horncastle's built up area had a population of 7,291. Of the findings, the ethnicity and religious composition of the ward was: The religious composition of
846-464: The Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835. Horncastle gained a Crown market charter in the 13th century. It was long known for its great August horse fair , a famous trading event that continued until the mid-20th century. It ended after the Second World War , when horses had largely ceased to be used on farms. The town remains a centre of the antiques trade. The annual horse fair was probably first held in
893-580: The French department of Sarthe , with a population of about 4,000. The towns' relationship is commemorated by a Rue Horncastle in Bonnétable and a Bonnetable Road in Horncastle (without the acute accent). Bull-baiting Bull-baiting is a blood sport involving pitting a bull against dogs with the aim of attacking and subduing the bull by biting and holding onto its nose or neck, which often resulted in
940-767: The Hill on the eastern outskirts. The Viking Way meets the River Waring, then north of the A158 the village of High Toynton . The A153 skirts the southern edge of the River Bain to reach Roughton and Thornton . The border follows the Old River Bain west of the A153 and north over the river meadows, crossing the Horncastle Canal and Viking Way. Eastwards it crosses the B1191 to the village of Langton and northwards to Thimbleby . It meets
987-451: The National 4X4 for Schools engineering competition, one of which came first nationally in its age group, while the other came second nationally overall. The Banovallum School is a non-selective community school serving Horncastle and surrounding villages; it forms a science specialist school jointly with Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. The most recent Ofsted inspection in 2019 judged
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#17328592552251034-512: The River Bain). Although this Roman name has been adopted by some local businesses and the town's secondary modern school , it is not firmly known to be original. Banovallum was merely suggested in the 19th century through an interpretation of the Ravenna Cosmography , a 7th-century list of Roman towns and road-stations, and may equally have meant Caistor . The place-name ‘Horncastle’
1081-662: The Winner, A good Ordinary at the King's Inn, between the Times of Baiting the Bulls. Bull baiting advertised in 1780 appears to indicate that it was organized by a local hostelry. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT an exceeding good BULL will be baited on Wednesday the 27th day of December 1780, near the DOG and STAR at Alresford, Hants, when and where a dinner will be given gratis to every person that shall produce
1128-407: The bear to death with its horns, or toss the bear into the air. Bull-baiting dogs, including Old English Bulldogs , Bullenbeissers , Spanish Bulldogs , Ca de Bous and bull and terriers , were bred to bait animals, mainly bulls and bears. During bull-baiting, the dog would attempt to flatten itself to the ground, creeping as close to the bull as possible, then darting out and attempting to bite
1175-462: The bull in the nose or head area. The bull would often be tethered by a collar and rope, which were staked into the ground. As the dog darted at the bull, the bull would attempt to catch the dog with his head and horns, and throw the dog into the air. In 1835, the Cruelty to Animals Act was passed in Parliament that outlawed "Blood Sport" in the United Kingdom. The bulldog's work was suddenly over and
1222-445: The bull's snout . The extinct Old English Bulldog was specially bred for this sport. Bull-baiting was not only practiced as a form of recreation; there was a long-held belief that baiting improved the meat quality and tenderness when consumed. By the early nineteenth century, the sport began to die out, both because the baiting caused a public nuisance and because of new concerns about animal cruelty. The Bull Baiting at Wokingham
1269-456: The bulldog rapidly started dying out. Around 1865, dog fanciers began developing dog clubs which eventually culminated into conformation shows . Many fanciers utilized various remnants of the dog utilized for "Blood Sport" to resurrect the "Bull" dog and ultimately developed today's modern English bulldog. Washington Irving , in his 1837 book, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville , wrote that
1316-480: The bulls that fought the bears, at least while California was part of the United States, were not domesticated Hereford bulls, but Spanish Fighting Bulls , whose weight, agility, speed, sharp horns, and hot temper were said to be dangerous to both bears and humans, and Wistar (1937) said that those bulls were fearless. In a case of the bull winning, victory could come early, when the bull used its strength to gore
1363-591: The club moved to the current Coronation Walk location in the 1970s. Horncastle Community Members Squash Club in Hemmingby Lane was founded in November 2006 to preserve an existing club by buying out retiring owners who had run it for 25 years. The town has been susceptible to flooding, notably in 1920 and 1960, and with three floods between 1981 and 1984. Folk belief associates the occurrence of floods with installations of new vicars in Horncastle's Anglican Church. The vicar changed in 1919 and 1959, both less than
1410-436: 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 A158 through Horncastle becomes busy in the summer holidays with Skegness holidaymakers . To alleviate traffic pressure in
1457-576: The death of the bull. Crowds in London during the Royal Entry of James VI and I in March 1604 were entertained by bull-baiting. During the time of Queen Anne , bull-baiting was practiced in London at Hockley-in-the-Hole , twice a week – and was also reasonably common in provincial towns, for instance at Birmingham 's Bull Ring . At Tutbury , a bull was tied to an iron stake so that it could move within
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1504-574: The last cattle market being held in 2000. In 1894 the Stanhope Memorial, designed by E. Lingen Barker, was raised in the centre of the Market Place in memory of Edward Stanhope MP. It is a Grade II listed structure made of limestone , red sandstone and pink and grey streaked marble . The Grade II listed Old Court House in Louth Road was built in 1865. There are 116 other listed edifices in
1551-634: The north–south River Bain meets the River Waring from the east, and north of the West and Wildmore Fens . The south of Horncastle is called Cagthorpe . Langton Hill to the west was part of Horncastle Rural District in the Parts of Lindsey , but is now in the district of East Lindsey , based in Manby . North of Horncastle are the villages of West Ashby and Low Toynton , and to their south Milestone House and Mareham on
1598-582: The old railway is followed by the Viking Way footpath. Horncastle Canal , based on the River Bain, was begun in 1792 and opened in 1802. In 2004 it was suggested that the canal be renovated with the help of private capital and promoted as a route for pleasure craft , as has been done successfully in other areas. A local kick-start programme raised money for the project. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from
1645-399: The place before ten o'clock in the forenoon. A Bill for the suppression of the practice was introduced into the House of Commons in 1800 by Sir William Pulteney . The Bill was defeated by a one-vote margin. A second Bill was introduced in 1802 by John Dent , but was defeated by thirteen votes. Bull baiting was still taking place, a newspaper reported in 1818 that a bull being taken from
1692-512: The same name exists. It includes Thimbleby and had a total population at the 2011 Census of 7,073. Horncastle has always been a safe area for the Conservative Party , except for two years in the early 1920s, when it had Liberal Party representation. It had an eponymous parliamentary constituency for 98 years, from 1885 to 1983. It then became Gainsborough and Horncastle, and after 1997 Louth and Horncastle . Henry Haslam served as MP in
1739-612: The school to be overall Grade 2 (good). It had a building added in 2010, with facilities for cookery, woodwork, metalwork, art and music. St Lawrence School is a special-needs school with a county-wide intake. It comprises the Lincolnshire Wolds Federation with St Bernard's School, Louth. Horncastle College was a "lifelong-learning" adult education college that ran short and residential courses in I.T. , art, languages and local history . It has been replaced by Fortuna Horncastle Business Centre. Horncastle sits at
1786-541: The stake to a stable had killed a man at Bilston Wake. Bulls were excluded from the protections afforded to other cattle in the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822 . Bull-baiting was not finally outlawed until parliament passed the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835 , which forbade the keeping of any house, pit, or other places for baiting or fighting any bull, bear, dog, or other animals. Bull-baiting ( Irish : tarbh-ghríosú )
1833-592: The town centre a relief road , Jubilee Way, was built in the 1970s. Minor roads run from Horncastle to Bardney , Boston (via Revesby ), Fulletby and Woodhall Spa . Horncastle is a hub for the InterConnect rural bus service. Regular services run to Lincoln, Skegness and across the Wolds. The Viking Way long-distance footpath passes through the town. The Great Northern Railway's Lincoln–Boston line ran through Kirkstead, 8 miles (12.9 km) from Horncastle, and
1880-516: The town, including the three places of worship – St Mary's (Grade II*), Holy Trinity (Grade II) and the Congregational Church (Grade II) – and several sections of the Roman walls (Grade I). The former Horncastle Town Hall was built as a drill hall and completed in around 1903. Historically, the civil parish lost population from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, as urbanisation and agricultural changes drew people to cities, where more work
1927-561: The ward at the 2021 Census was recorded as: Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service is based at the Boston Road Industrial Estate. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is based in Banovallum House. Mortons of Horncastle is a major national magazine publisher of classic motorcycles, aviation and road transport heritage titles, based in the industrial estate off the A153 ( Boston Road). An electoral ward of
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1974-595: Was advertised in the newspaper in 1774. BULL BAITING. On Wednesday next, being St. Thomas's Day, Two Bulls will be baited in the Market-Place, Wokingham, which will be run for, a very handsome MOROCCO COLLAR, stitched with Silver, and a Silver Plate for a Label, of a Guinea and Half Value. Each Dog is to be let three Times at the first Bull, four Times at the second, and only one Dog run at a Time. The Owner of each Dog that runs, pays One Shilling for Entrance. Proper Judges will be appointed before running to determine who may be
2021-518: Was available. However, the population since the late 20th century it has risen, to 6,815 in 2011, its highest so far. The estimated population in 2019 was still higher at 7,123. Horncastle lies 7 miles from Woodhall Spa , 18 miles from Boston , 21 miles from Lincoln and 13 miles from Louth . It is near the main A158 road between Lincoln to Skegness , to the south of the Lincolnshire Wolds , where
2068-428: Was founded in 1571, and is among the top schools in Lincolnshire, having been at times among the top schools in the country. Its tennis, hockey, netball and cricket teams compete regionally, and the tennis team was a regional winner in the 2005 British Schools Tennis Championships. Queen Elizabeth's is a specialist Science College and Language College . Its Design and Technology department recently entered two teams in
2115-526: Was installed in 2013. On 7 October 1960 Horncastle entered the UK Weather Records with a "highest 180-minute total" rainfall of 178 mm. Water levels are said to have risen 8 feet (2.4 m) as a consequence. Real-time river levels are available from the Environment Agency : Flood warnings for the town: Horncastle is twinned with Bonnétable , a ville de marché (market town) in
2162-560: Was known as the Horncastle & Spa News . In 2001, the Horncastle News and Market Rasen Mail were sold to Johnston Press . According to data from analysts JICREG, weekly circulation of Horncastle News was 4,936 in the period January–June 2009. In 2022, this decreased to 910 copies. This United Kingdom newspaper–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Horncastle, Lincolnshire Horncastle
2209-685: Was widespread in Ireland in the 17th–19th centuries. In Dublin , bull-baiting took place near the Cornmarket and in Smithfield . On St Stephen's Day 1789, a riot followed a bull-bait: soldiers fired on the crowd and four were killed. In Wexford , the activity arrived in 1621, brought by the Guild of Butchers. Bulls were baited twice a year and their hides presented to the Mayor. The area where bull-baiting took place
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