The Parts of Kesteven ( or ) are a traditional division of

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. This division had long had a separate county administration (

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s), along with the two other

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and

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Etymology

The name ''Kesteven'' is first attested in the late tenth century Latin translation of the

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, in the form (agreed by scholars to be a scribal error for ). The name appears in the

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of 1086 as ''Chetsteven'' and from 1185 as ., s.v. ''Kesteven''. The first part of the name comes from the

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word ' ("

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"), still found in

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as '. The second element is the

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word ("meeting place"). The name, therefore, means "meeting place at Coed, i.e. the wood".

Administrative areas

Wapentakes and Sokes

Historically, Lincolnshire was divided into

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, hundreds and sokes. The following made up Kesteven: * Aswardburn Wapentake *

Aveland Aveland was a Wapentake of Kesteven from the time of the Danelaw until the Local Government Act 1888. Its meeting place was The Aveland at in the parish of Aslackby. Origins Aveland was probably established as an administrative unit soon aft ...

Wapentake * Beltisloe Wapentake * Boothby Graffo Wapentake * Flaxwell Wapentake * Langoe Wapentake * Lovedon Wapentake * Ness Wapentake *

Winnibriggs and Threo Winnibriggs and Threo was an anciently established hundred (county subdivision), wapentake in the Parts of Kesteven, the south-east division of the English county of Lincolnshire. Most of the administrative functions of the wapentake had been lost t ...

Wapentake * Borough and Soke of

Grantham Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...

* Stamford Borough

Local Government Act 1888

The three parts were given separate elected

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s in 1889 by the

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, and recognised as

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. Kesteven lies in the south-west of Lincolnshire. It includes the towns of: * Bourne * Bracebridge *

Market Deeping Market Deeping is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 6,008. History The town's ma ...

Sleaford Sleaford is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. On the edge of the The Fens, Fenlands, it is north-east of Grantham, west of Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, and sou ...

* Stamford

Local Government Act 1894

Under the

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Kesteven was divided into a number of

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and

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s based on earlier

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s: *

Bourne Rural District Bourne was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven from 1894 to 1931. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Bourne rural sanitary district Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 a ...

Branston Rural District Branston was a rural district in Kesteven in Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1931. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of Lincoln rural sanitary district which was in Kesteven (the rest going to form Welton Rural D ...

Grantham Rural District Grantham was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven from 1894 to 1931. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Grantham rural sanitary district, the Leicestershire part of which went to form the Belvoir Rural D ...

Claypole Rural District Claypole was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven from 1894 to 1931. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Newark-on-Trent rural sanitary district which was in Kesteven (the rest going to form th ...

Sleaford Rural District Sleaford was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 6 ...

Uffington Rural District Uffington was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven, England from 1894 to 1931. It was created in 1894 from that part of the Stamford rural sanitary district which was in Kesteven (the rest forming part of either Ketton Rural Di ...

The urban districts and boroughs were: * Bourne * Bracebridge *

(borough) *

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* Stamford (borough) Bourne Urban District was abolished in 1920, with Bourne becoming a parish in Bourne Rural District. Bracebridge became part of the county borough of

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that same year, becoming associated with the Parts of Lindsey.

Local Government Act 1929

The rural districts were re-organised by a

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in 1929, to create four new districts named after points of the compass: *

East Kesteven Rural District East Kesteven was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven from 1931 to 1974. It was formed under a County Review Order, by the merger of most of the Sleaford Rural District and the parish of Haceby from Grantham Rural District. The ...

North Kesteven Rural District North Kesteven was a rural district in Kesteven, Lincolnshire from 1931 to 1974. It was created in 1931 under a County Review Order, and was formed from the Branston Rural District, part of the Claypole Rural District and part of the Sleaford R ...

South Kesteven Rural District South Kesteven was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven in England from 1931 to 1974. It was formed under a County Review Order in 1931, by the merger of the Bourne Rural District and the Uffington Rural District. It continued ...

West Kesteven Rural District West Kesteven was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven, England from 1931 to 1974. It was formed under a County Review Order, by the merger of most of the Grantham Rural District, part of the Sleaford Rural District and much of t ...

Local Government Act 1972

These separate county councils were abolished in 1974 and Lincolnshire (minus the northern part of Lindsey) had a single county council for the first time, although the names of the Parts survive in some of the names of district councils. Under the

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, the four rural districts in Kesteven, along with the boroughs and urban district, merged into two district councils: *

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- A merger of North and East Rural Districts and Sleaford Urban District *

South Kesteven District Council South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...

- A merger of South and West Rural Districts and the boroughs of Grantham and Stamford

Titles of nobility associated with Kesteven

* The title of '' Baron Kesteven'' existed from 1868 until 1915. * The title of ''

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'' existed from 1715 to 1809. *

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, former

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and Kesteven native, chose 'of Kesteven' as the

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for her

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in 1992, becoming ''Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire''.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990

References

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External links

Map of Kesteven
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