Tattershall Castle is in Tattershall [Map], Castles in Lincolnshire.
On 24th August 1453 John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu [aged 22] was ambushed at Heworth Moor York by Thomas Percy 1st Baron Egremont [aged 30] leading a force of 700 or more men when returning with his brother's wedding party from Tattershall Castle [Map] to Sheriff Hutton [Map]; sometimes decribed as the Battle of Heworth Moor.
In 1472 Archbishop Thomas Rotherham [aged 48] commissioned the building of a new Bishop of Lincoln's Palace, Buckden [Map] based on Tattershall Castle [Map].
On 15th January 1619 Thomas Clinton 3rd Earl Lincoln [aged 48] died at Tattershall Castle [Map]. His son Theophilus [aged 19] succeeded 4th Earl Lincoln, 12th Baron Clinton.
The River Bain rises near Ludford [Map] from where it flows past Donington on Bain [Map], Goulceby [Map], Hemingby [Map], Horncastle [Map], Dalderby [Map], Kirkby on Bain [Map], Tumby [Map] past Tattershall Castle [Map] after which it joins the River Witham.