a market-town of England, in the county of Lincoln and wapentake of Aveland, 97 miles from London. It has four principal streets diverging from the market-place, in the centre of which is the new town-hall, erected in 1822. The church is a fine old Gothic edifice; of its two towers only one is now standing. It has an endowed grammar-school, national school, mechanics' library, hospital, almshouse, and a union poor-house. Pop. (1851) 2789, principally engaged in the leather, wool, and malt trade. Market-day Saturday. A tessellated pavement and some Roman coins have been found in the neighbourhood. Cecil, Lord Burleigh, was born here in 1520, and the unfortunate Dr Dodd in 1729.