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135 The Stanhope Memorial 137 Watermill Road during the Flood, Dec 31, 1900 141 West Street during the Flood, Dec. 31, 1900 143 Conging Street during the Flood, Dec. 31, 1900 145 The Stanch 147 Old Thatched Inn in the Bull Ring 163 St. Margaret's Church, Thimbleby 171 The Manor House, West Ashby 177 All Saints' Church, West Ashby 179 St. John the Baptist's Church, High Toynton 181 St. Peter's Church, Low Toynton 187 St. Helen's Church, Mareham-le-Fen 193 Wesleyan Chapel, Mareham-le-Fen 197 St. Michael's Church, Coningsby 205 CHAPTER I. PART I--PREHISTORIC. HORNCASTLE--ITS INFANCY. 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. It is, however, by no means a mere exercise of the imagination, if we assume that the site of the present Horncastle was at a distant period a British settlement. {1a} Dr. Brewer says, "nearly three-fourths of our Roman towns were built on British sites," (Introduction to _Beauties of England_, p. 7), and in the case of Horncastle, although there is nothing British in the name of the town itself, yet that people have undoubtedly here left their traces behind them. The late Dr. Isaac Taylor {1b} says, "Rivers and mountains, as a rule, receive their names from the earliest races, towns and villages from later colonists." The ideas of those early occupants were necessarily limited. The hill which formed their stronghold against enemies, {1c} or which was the "high place" of their religio
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