TATTERSHALL, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Horncastle district, Lincoln. The town stands on the river Bain, the Witham navigation, and the Lincoln and Boston railway, 9 miles SSW of Horncastle; is partly in T. parish, but mostly in Coningsby parish; contains a pop. of about 2,000; and has a r. station, an inn, an ancient cruciform church, four dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £20 a year, alms houses with £30, other charities £39, a weekly market on Thursday, stock-markets on the Thursday before and the two Thursdays after Easter, and cattle fairs on 15 May and 25 Sept.—The parish consists of the townships of Tatter shalland Tattershall-Thorpe, and comprises 4,580 acres. Post town, Coningsby, under Boston. Real property, £6,481. Pop. in 1851, 987; in 1861, 848. Houses, 180. The manor was given, by William the Conqueror, to Eudo; passed to the Cromwells, the mother of Henry VII., the Brandons, and the Clintons: and belongs now to Earl Fortescue. T. Cast1e was built by Eudo, and rebuilt about 1440 by the Cromwells; suffered much injury in the civil wars of Charles I.; and has left an interesting four-storied tower, 100 feet high, with octangular corner turrets. Two Roman camps are at T. Park. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £110. Patron, Earl Fortescue.-- The sub-district contains 9 parishes, 4 extra-parochial tracts, and 15 fen-allotments. Pop., 6,609. Houses 1,389.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))