Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region:	East Midlands
Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 2nd 6,959 km² Ranked 4th 5,921 km²
Admin HQ:	Lincoln
:	GB-LIN
ONS code:	32
NUTS 3:	UKF30
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 19th 969,569 139 / km² Ranked 15th 657,843
Ethnicity:	98.5% White
Politics
Lincolnshire County Council http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Ian Cawsey, Quentin Davies, John Hayes, Douglas Hogg, Edward Leigh, Shona McIsaac, Gillian Merron, Austin Mitchell, Elliot Morley, Mark Simmonds, Peter Tapsell
Districts
Lincoln North Kesteven South Kesteven South Holland Boston East Lindsey West Lindsey North Lincolnshire (Unitary) North East Lincolnshire (Unitary)

Lincolnshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. It borders onto Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and (for just 19 metres, England's shortest county boundary) with Northamptonshire. The county town is Lincoln.

Mainly agricultural, it stretches from the southern border with Norfolk at the Wash to the Humber in the north where it meets Yorkshire.

It is a county of contrasts, going from flat, marshy land (much of it reclaimed from the sea) via the rolling Lincolnshire Wolds in the middle of the county to another flat low-lying area near the major fishing port of Grimsby.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Towns and villages 3 Places of interest

History

Lincolnshire derived from the merging of the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Lindsey with that controlled by the Danelaw borough Stamford. For some time the entire county was called 'Lindsey', and it is recorded as such in the Domesday Book. Later, Lindsey was applied only the northern core, around Lincoln, and emerged as one of the three Parts of Lincolnshire, along with the Parts of Holland in the south-east and Kesteven in the south west.

In 1888 when county councils were set up, Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven each received their own separate one. These survived until 1974, when Holland, Kesteven, and most of Lindsey were unified into Lincolnshire, and the northern part, with Scunthorpe and Grimsby, going to the newly formed administrative county of Humberside, along with most of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

A further local government reform in 1996 abolished Humberside, and the parts south of the Humber became the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. These areas became part of Lincolnshire for ceremonial purposes such as the Lord-Lieutenancy, but are not covered by the Lincolnshire police.

The remaining districts of Lincolnshire are Boston, East Lindsey, Lincoln, South Holland, South Kesteven, North Kesteven and West Lindsey.

Towns and villages

• Alford, Ansby (fictional)
• Billinghay, Boston, Bourne, Brandon, Branston, Burgh le Marsh
• Caistor, Chapel St. Leonards, Cherry Willingham, Coningsby, Croft, Crowland
• Deeping St. James
• Folkingham
• Gainsborough, Grantham
• Heckington, Holbeach, Horncastle
• Ingoldmells
• Leasingham, Lincoln, Long Sutton, Louth
• Mablethorpe, Market Deeping, Market Rasen, Marston, Martin, Metheringham, Martin, Horncastle
• Normanton, North Thoresby
• Pinchbeck
• Reepham, Rothwell
• Saltfleet, Scopwick, Sibsey, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding, Spilsby, Stamford, Sutton Bridge
• Twenty
• Whitton, Woodhall Spa, Woolsthorpe, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth

• Alford Manor House
• Alford Windmill
• Ayscoughfee Hall
• Belton House
• Cogglesford Watermill
• Crowland Abbey
• Doddington Hall
• East Lighthouse, Sutton Bridge - former home of Sir Peter Scott
• Grimsthorpe Castle
• Harlaxton Manor
• Heckington Windmill
• Lincoln Castle
• Lincoln Cathedral
• Normanby Hall
• Tolethorpe Hall
• Gibraltar Point
• River Ancholme
• The Wash