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BOULDERS NEAR HORNCASTLE. 
Rev. J. CONWAY WALT 
Rector of Langton, Horncastle, PRS ER 
In the parish of Langton by Horncastle we have at least five 
large boulders within a distance of some five hundred yards ; 
and several smaller ones. They lie—or rather did lie, for one 
has been removed to my own garden at the Rectory—along the 
road which runs through the village. The road is probably 
a very ancient one, for, like a Devonshire lane, traffic or some 
other cause has worn it down to a depth of from four to five 
feet below the level of the land on either side of it. These 
boulders are found, one (a) tilted up, doubtless artificially, 
against the bank slightly above the road level; another (b) on 
the road level; a third (c) about a foot below the road, in the 
bank of the ditch; and a fourth (d) is low down in a ditch, two 
feet or more below the road level. The fifth (e), now in my own 
garden, used to be close to the road-side, within a couple of 
yards of (a) the one tilted up. It was nearly three hundred 
yards from my garden; but it, with another one still in situ, 
had been bought of the parish by my father many years ago; 
'and in the year 1890 I determined, if possible, to transfer it to 
the Rectory garden. I made a very strongly-constructed sledge, 
and, with the help of two men, I got it levered on the sledge ; 
and it took five good cart horses to move it, and some chains 
were broken in the process; for the five horses could only drag » 
it a hundred yards or so at a time, and at each fresh start there 
Was a very severe strain on their gear. Arrived in the garden, 
with the aid of two more men, five of us in all, we managed to 
lever it on to a flower bed, and worked it round to form a> 
prominent wing of a rockery, which I had constructed. There 
it was seen last year by Mr. John Cordeaux, when he paid me 
a visit from Woodhall Spa, and was pronqunces by him to be 
‘one of the finest boulders in the county.’ We had one, how- 
ever, very much larger in this neighbourhood, in the parish of 
_ Edlington, on the farm of Mr. Robert Searby, ‘as big as a hay- 
stack,’ but that was destroyed by dynamite some two years ago. | 
The dimensions of the one in my garden are: length about 
4 ft. 5 in., height 3 ft. 5 in., and thickness about 2 ft. The one 
down the village (a) tilted up is less than a being about 3ft. 
2 ft. 6 in., thickness not known; the one (b) on the road 
