It may be dubbed 'Best Antiques Town' but there’s more to it, a kind of satisfying Englishness that prevails in Horncastle. This is country living at a manageable pace. Standing between the Rivers Waring and Bain, the walls of the Roman town can still be seen. A flourishing town in the Middle Ages, and again with the coming of the railway, look back comfortably on the past as you stroll around the dozens of antique shops, packed with curiosities and furniture from bygone ages.