Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tattershall

Tattershall, market town and par. with ry. sta., Lincolnshire, on river Bain, adjacent to Conngsby and 11 miles NW. of Boston, 4580 ac., pop. 782; P.O., and P.O. at Tattersnail Bridge. Market-day, Thursday. The par. contains the townships of Tattershall and Tattershall Thorpe - Tattershall, pop. 481; Tattershall Thorpe, pop. 301; in Tattershall Park are 2 Roman camps; Tattershall Castle, rebuilt in the 15th century by the Cromwells, suffered in the Civil War, and has left some interesting remains.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Tattershall AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Tattershall

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