HORNCASTLE

The 52-mile route through Lincolnshire from Louth to Spalding takes Sheila through the town of Horncastle, a small market town where five of the “Ten Best Things to Do in Horncastle” on Trip Advisor are visiting antiques shops.
Horncastle sits at the confluence of the River Bain and the River Ware and is prone to flooding. Some locals believed that flooding always follows the installation of a new vicar: changes of vicar in 1919 and 1959 caused major floods in 1920 and 1960 and a change of vicar in 1980 caused four major floods between 1981 and 1984; this theory was largely disproved in 1999, however, when there was a new vicar but no flooding and again in 2007 and 2012 when there was much flooding but no new vicar. So now they know.
Sheila reached Horncastle at 10.45 am and from here, she is 151 miles from the finish…