Lindsey, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey
History
• Origin	Kingdom of Lindsey
• Created	1889
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Lincolnshire, Humberside
Status	Administrative county
Government	Lindsey County Council
• HQ	Newland, Lincoln
Arms of the former Lindsey County Council

The Parts of Lindsey are a traditional division of Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county. The Isle of Axholme, which is on the west side of the River Trent, has normally formed part of it. The district's name originated from the Kingdom of Lindsey of Anglo-Saxon times, whose territories were merged with that of Stamford to form Lincolnshire.

Local government

When the English shires were established, Lindsey became part of Lincolnshire. It and each of Kesteven and Holland, acquired the formal designation of Parts of Lincolnshire. Thus it became the Parts of Lindsey.

Lindsey was itself divided into three ridings, the North, West and South Ridings and then into wapentakes. The West Riding covered the western part, including Gainsborough, Scunthorpe and Spital. The North Riding covered the north-east, including Barton upon Humber, Caistor, Cleethorpes, Brigg, Grimsby, and Market Rasen. The South Riding covered the rest, in the south-east, including Louth, Mablethorpe and Skegness. The point at which the Ridings touched was somewhere near Lissington.^[1]

Lindsey, like the other parts of Lincolnshire had long had a separate county administration (Quarter Sessions). In 1889, this division was followed in the establishment of the administrative county of Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey, which had an elected county council. Lincoln and Grimsby were independent county boroughs.

Within the rest of Lindsey there were various urban districts and rural districts, established by the Local Government Act 1894. The rural districts were Caistor, Gainsborough, Glanford Brigg, Grimsby, Horncastle, Isle of Axholme, Louth, Spilsby, Welton. A rural district of Sibsey also existed until 1936, when it was merged into Spilsby.

The administrative county of Parts of Lindsey were abolished on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972. Its area was divided between two new non-metropolitan counties: the northern area of Lindsey was placed in Humberside while the remainder passed to Lincolnshire.^[2]

Lindsey was divided between six non-metropolitan districts, as follows^[2]

Present authorities

In 1996 these Humberside districts were re-grouped into unitary authorities; units which performed the duties of both county and administrative district.

• One is North Lincolnshire (centred on Scunthorpe). This is the former districts of Glanford and Scunthorpe, as well as the Isle of Axholme which had become the southern part of Boothferry.
• The second is North East Lincolnshire comprising the former districts of Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes.

The two unitary authorities represent the most urbanised part of traditional Lincolnshire.

References

Further reading

• Russell, Reginald Charles (1965). A History of Schools and Education in Lindsey, Lincolnshire: 1800–1902. Lindsey County Council Education Committee.
• Russell, Rex C. (1994). A History of School Teachers in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, c. 1800–1902. Barton-upon-Humber: Workers Education Association, Barton-upon-Humber Branch.
• Wickstead, Arthur (1978). Lincolnshire, Lindsey: The Story of a County Council, 1889–1974. Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts.
• Vince, Alan (ed.) (1993). Pre-Viking Lindsey. Lincoln: City of Lincoln Archaeology Unit. ISBN 0-9514987-7-0. 

External links

• Map of Lindsey on Wikishire

Coordinates: 53°26′00″N 0°15′00″W / 53.4333°N 0.2500°W / 53.4333; -0.2500