Horncastle

Horncastle is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in , England. It is 17 miles east of . Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census and estimated at 7,123 in 2019. A section of the ancient Roman walls remains.
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  • Type: Town with 6,820 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: Banovallum” and “Horncastle, Lincolnshire
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Horncastle and Lion Theatre.

Church
St. Mary's Church, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, dates from the early 13th century and is dedicated to Saint Mary. It serves the Ecclesiastical Parish of Horncastle and a grade II* listed building that was heavily restored by Ewan Christian between 1859 and 1861.

Theater building
is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cagthorpe and Thornton.

Neighborhood
is suburb of the town of Horncastle, , England. It is south of, and separated from, the historic town centre by the re-aligned River Waring and the A158.

Hamlet
, or by Horncastle, is a village in the civil parish of , in the East Lindsey district of , England. It is situated on the B1191 road, 1 mile west from the A153, and 1.5 miles south-west from Horncastle town centre.

Hamlet
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the East Lindsey district of , England. It is about 2 miles south from the town of Horncastle. is situated 2 miles southwest of Horncastle.

Horncastle

Latitude
53.20873° or 53° 12′ 31″ north
Longitude
-0.11695° or 0° 7′ 1″ west
Population
6,820
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB XHO
Open location code
9C5X6V5M+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243463242
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646595
Wiki­data ID
Q1628403
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Horncastle” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Horncastle
  • Basque: Horncastle
  • Catalan: Horncastle
  • Cebuano: Horncastle
  • Chinese: 霍恩卡斯尔
  • Chinese: 霍恩卡斯爾
  • Dutch: Horncastle
  • French: Horncastle
  • German: Horncastle
  • Irish: Horncastle, Lincolnshire
  • Irish: Horncastle
  • Italian: Horncastle (Lincolnshire)
  • Italian: Horncastle
  • Japanese: ホーンキャッスル
  • Ladin: Horncastle
  • Latvian: Hornkāsla
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Horncastle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Horncastle i Lincolnshire
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Horncastle
  • Persian: هورنکستل، لینکلن‌شر
  • Polish: Horncastle
  • Romanian: Horncastle
  • Russian: Хорнкасл
  • South Azerbaijani: هورنکستل، لینکلن‌شر
  • Spanish: Horncastle
  • Swedish: Horncastle
  • Turkish: Horncastle
  • Welsh: Horncastle, Swydd Lincoln
  • Welsh: Horncastle

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Horncastle”. Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.