The Ship, (site not identified).

1836, Robert Pickworth. If he were the same man who was landlord of the White Hart in 1841 The Ship may have ceased to exist at about that date.

The Marquis of Granby, (in Bob's Lane).

1826, Francis Foulston.
1833, Richard Coulton and J. Whitham.
1836, Thomas Briggs (owner Richard Coulton).
In July, 1826 George Green, alias John Hartley, who had been captured at the Marquis of Granby Inn, Caistor, was sentenced to transportation for life, for having robbed John Lawrence, blacksmith, of Swallow on the high road in the parish of Irby.

The Little John, (later Cleveland House on Nettleton Road).

The Horse and Jockey, (later the lodging house in the horse market).

The Cross Keys, (in the beast market).

The Black Swan, The Royal Oak, The Bow and Arrow --  sites not identified.

THE LEGEND OF THE STONE SACK AT FONABY

IN 1846 Dr George Oliver wrote in his book on Lincolnshire Monasteries, "Castor was evidently a British town, for on one of its hills, a stone idol was placed, which I inspected a few years ago, and heard the popular traditions concerning it, which were certainly of a Druidical origin."
This doubtless refers to the story of the stone sack of which the following is the version which was current in Caistor 25 years ago and which I first heard from a farm labourer near Kirton Lindsey, about 1916.
Once upon a time, Christ ¹ was riding on an ass along the High Street when he arrived at Fonaby Top and saw some men ² sowing corn in a field on the west side of the road ³ . He stopped and asked them for a hand-full of the corn for his beast, but the request was churlishly refused, the men saying