HORKSTOW, a parish in the northern division
of the wapentake of YARBOROUGH, parts of LINBSEY,
county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (S.W.byW.) from Barton
upon Humber, containing 200 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and -diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £4. 18. 4.,
and in the patronage of Lord Yarborongh. The church
is dedicated to St. Maurice. This village is pleasantly
situated beneath a range of hills: in 1796 fragments of
three tesselated pavements were discovered near Horkstow
hall, the largest of which is divided into three
compartments, one of them exhibiting a curious representation
of a chariot race. Roman coins have been
discovered here.