John Byng was a sometimes irascible diarist who documented his travels on horseback throughout Great Britain between 1781 and 1794.  His journeys across Lincolnshire include several testy and irritable descriptions of our local towns, villages and people, but also some endearing recollections of life in this country over 200 years ago. He later succeeded to the title of Viscount Torrington.

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