6-542: Langoe Wapentake was one of the ancient divisions of the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire . It was separated into two divisions, named First and Second. The First division consisted of the Parishes of Billinghay , Kirkby Green and Timberland . The second division contained Blankney , Dunston , Metheringham , Nocton , Potterhanworth , Scopwick and Washingborough . This Lincolnshire location article
12-524: A parish in Bourne Rural District. Bracebridge became part of the county borough of Lincoln that same year, becoming associated with the Parts of Lindsey. The rural districts were re-organised by a County Review Order in 1929, to create four new districts named after points of the compass: These separate county councils were abolished in 1974 and Lincolnshire (minus the northern part of Lindsey) had
18-408: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kesteven The Parts of Kesteven ( / ˈ k ɛ s t ə v ən / or / k ə ˈ s t iː v ən / ) are a traditional division of Lincolnshire , England . This division had long had a separate county administration ( quarter sessions ), along with the two other Parts of Lincolnshire , Lindsey and Holland . The name Kesteven
24-696: Is first attested in the late tenth century Latin translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Æthelweard , in the form Ceoftefne (agreed by scholars to be a scribal error for Ceostefne ). The name appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Chetsteven and from 1185 as Ketsteuene . The first part of the name comes from the Common Brittonic word * ceto- (" woodland "), still found in Modern Welsh as coed . The second element
30-477: Is the Old Norse word stefna ("meeting place"). Thus the name a place named by Brittonic-speakers as "Woodland" came to be included by Old Norse speakers coining a name that meant "meeting place at [the place called] Coed". Historically, Lincolnshire was divided into wapentakes , hundreds and sokes . The following made up Kesteven: The three parts were given separate elected county councils in 1889 by
36-483: The Local Government Act 1888 , and recognised as administrative counties . Kesteven lies in the south-west of Lincolnshire. It includes the towns of: Under the Local Government Act 1894 Kesteven was divided into a number of rural district and urban districts based on earlier sanitary districts : The urban districts and boroughs were: Bourne Urban District was abolished in 1920, with Bourne becoming
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