At Robert Bell & Co we feel very privileged to show over 200 years of successful business as a single partnership of Land Agents, Estate Agents, Auctioneers, Chartered Surveyor and Valuers, serving the community in central Lincolnshire.

Our continuing success has been based upon being a continuously forward thinking business, seeking to provide clients with a high quality professional service, tailored to meet their needs.

1790's George Weir - traded in the High Street Horncastle as Printer and Auctioneer, when this Wolds Market town was drawing visitors from Europe to its Famous Horse Fair.

1830's Mr Weir Junior, joined the practice. Meanwhile in...

1842 George Bell moved from Perthshire to be Land Agent at Revesby Estate.Previously he had followed his fathers footsteps as land agent on an estate in Perthshire.

1855 Business sold to Mr Parish, Senior.

1872 Parish & Son (Walter Booth Parish) moved to present offices in Old Bank Chambers, Horncastle. We still have the tenantright valuation books from this date. Local historian may be interested in these for family records.

1890 Parish & Stafford Walter as Mr Stafford Walter, Valuer, came into partnership.

1897 R Hay Bell apprenticed.

1910 Parish, Stafford Walter & Bell as R Hay Bell became a partner. We have good coverage of the OS 1906 maps of central Lincolnshire.For a copy covering your home or farm contact out Horncastle office.

1930 The firm of Willsons purchased and B Boulton sent to manage it.

1932 Willsons/Parish, Stafford Walter & Bell run as separate firms.

1933 Robert H Bell apprenticed.

1936 Mr Stafford Walter died.

1947 Robert H Bell came into partnership.

1968 Association with George Mawer & Company.

1969 Robert Hay Bell died aged 88.

1978 Robert L H Bell joined the firm.

1980 Merger with George Mawer & Company and Masons to form Mawer Mason & Bell.

1982 Robert L H Bell becomes a partner and Tony Wing joins the practice.

1984 Opening of our Woodhall Spa Office.

1987 Split of Mawer Mason & Bell as three quarters of the firm is sold to the Leeds Building Society. The start of Robert Bell & Company.

1990 Opening of our Coningsby office Managed by Tony Wing.

1998 Residential Management office opened on Burton Road, Lincoln, beneath the walls of Lincoln Castle.

2000 Tony Wing joins the partnership.

2001 Opening of our new Lincoln City office at 43 Silver Street offering, for the very first time, the company's full range of property services to the Lincoln market.

2007 Mr R Bell dies at the age of 89. Over four hundred people from across central Lincolnshire attended the funeral.