The Remains of the Livestock Market on Horncastle Wong
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Remains of the Livestock Market on Horncastle Wong by Tony Atkin as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
The Remains of the Livestock Market on Horncastle Wong
Image: © Tony Atkin Taken: 7 Sep 2006
At the time of writing these cattle and sheep pens which have been slowly rusting away since the closure of the market occupy just about the most controversial piece of land in Horncastle. The local council wants to build new council offices on this land, a proposal which sees furious opposition from many local residents. These stalls occupy part of an area of land known as "The Wong". Some argue that as The Wong is ancient common land it should not be built on. The word "wong" is an rarely used term meaning 'common land' although it was in more regular usage about 1000 years ago.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.20497
Longitude
-0.116464