Cussons' Horncastle Compendium, 1837

This 19th-century county compendium provides a practical survey of Lincolnshire, detailing its boundaries, topography, Wolds, fens, coastal tracts, and the character of the air with improvements in health attributed to drainage and cultivation. It describes diverse soils and farming practices, highlights rabbit warrens and a cottage allotment system, and advocates more unified drainage works. The work supplies population and parliamentary representation figures and concludes with extensive practical lists of market days and fairs for towns and wapentakes, combining descriptive geography, economic observation, and local administrative detail for readers and officials.