SITUATION.
Tattershall or Tateshall is a small market town in the wapentake of Gartree. It is situated on the banks of the river Bane, near its junction with the river Witham, and is distant nine miles south west from Horncastle. It is a place of considerable antiquity, having been a Roman military station; traces of two encampments of that warlike people being still visible, at a short distance from the town, in a place called Tattershall park. Several Roman coins have also been found in different parts of the parish.
