Horkstow Camera

Horkstow Camera was a monastic cell in Lincolnshire, England, dependent on Willoughton Preceptory, a house of the Knights Templar.

Lincolnshire preceptories

Until their disbandment in 1312, the Knights Templar were major landowners on the higher lands of Lincolnshire, where they had a number of preceptories on property which provided income, while Temple Bruer was an estate on the Lincoln Heath, believed to have been used also for military training.[1] The preceptories from which the Lincolnshire properties were managed were:[2]

• Aslackby Preceptory, Kesteven (TF0830)
• Bottesford, Lindsey (SE8907)
• Eagle, Kesteven (SK875672)
• Great Limber, Lindsey (TA1308)
• Horkstow, Lindsey (SE9818)
• Witham Preceptory, Kesteven (SK928205)
• Temple Bruer, Kesteven (TF0054)
• Willoughton Preceptory, Lindsey (SK923931)
• Byard's Leap (SK990494) was part of the Temple Bruer estate.

References

1. Ward, Penny (5 December 2023). Dennis Mills (ed.). The Knights Templar in Kesteven (2nd ed.). Heckington: Heritage Lincolnshire Publications. ISBN 978-0-948639-47-0.
2. Page, William, ed. (1906). "Houses of Knights Templars: Willoughton, Eagle, Aslackby, South Witham and Temple Bruer". A History of the County of Lincoln. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. pp. 210–213. Retrieved 12 February 2011.