Parts of Lincolnshire
The three parts of the English county of Lincolnshire are or were divisions of the second-largest county in England. They existed as units of local government until it was reviewed in the 1970s. They were similar in nature to the three ridings of Yorkshire.
The three parts were:
The three parts touched somewhere near Chapel Hill
Each of the parts had long had separate county administration, and each was created a discrete administrative county with its own county council in 1889.
This arrangement lasted until 1974, when the three councils were replaced by a single Lincolnshire County Council, with northern Lindsey going to form part of the new County of Humberside.
Although the parts no longer exist as units of local government, they are still recognised as broad geographical areas of Lincolnshire, and their names live on in some of the county's district councils.In 1906, quarter sessions were held at Lincoln for Lindsey, at Bourne and Sleaford for Kesteven, and at Spalding and Boston for Holland.
