page_title: Horncastle
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Horncastle / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Lincolnshire Wolds from Bluestone Heath Road. Lincolnshire Wolds from Bluestone Heath Road - Taken from the viewpoint marked on the OS Landranger, looking towards Horncastle. Taken on a beautiful calm summer evening - there's so much space out here, miles of gentle rolling hills.
context_page_description: Horncastle is an English market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, 17 miles east of the county town of Lincoln. It had a population of 6,815, according to the 2011 Census. A section of the ancient Roman walls remains.
context_section_description: It lies to the south of the Lincolnshire Wolds, where 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 used to be part of Horncastle Rural District in the Parts of Lindsey, but is now in the district of East Lindsey based in Manby, east of Louth.
  North of the town, the civil parish meets West Ashby and Low Toynton, south of Milestone House on the A153 Louth Road. The boundary skirts the east of the town, crossing Low Toynton Road, following the Viking Way, then meeting the River Waring. It briefly follows north of the A158 to a caravan park, where it meets High Toynton. Southwards on Mareham Road it meets Mareham on the Hill, east of Stonehill Farm. South of the town, and north of Telegraph House, it meets Scrivelsby, following High Lane westwards to cross the B1183, south of Loxley Farm, then the A153 and skirts the southern edge of the sewage works next to the River Bain where it meets Roughton (Thornton). It follows the Old River Bain west of the A153 northwards over the river meadows], crossing the Horncastle Canal and Viking Way. Eastwards it crosses the B1191, south of Langton Hill, where at Lowmoor Lane it meets Langton. It follows Langton Lane northwards, with Mill House Farm (Langton Mill) to the west, towards Thimbleby. It meets the B1190 where the pylons cross the road, then the A158 at the B1190 junction, following Accommodation Road to the east. It skirts the north of the town, following Elmhurst Road, passing south of Elmlea Farm, and straight through to Elmhirst Lakes. At the River Bain near Hemingby Lane, it reaches West Ashby.
caption: Looking from the Lincolnshire Wolds southwards towards Horncastle
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