Lindsey
The Parts of Lindsey is one of the three Parts of Lincolnshire, and it effectively consists of the northern half of that county. According to Wikishire, Lindsey has just under 600,000 inhabitants, making it the most populous Part of Lincolnshire.[1]
The northern part of the cathedral city Lincoln, Lincolnshire's county town, is in Lindsey with the southern part being in Kesteven. Other towns in the Parts of Lindsey include Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Skegness.
The name Lindsey is older than that of Lincolnshire itself; the Kingdom of Lindsey was a minor Anglian kingdom which was absorbed into the much larger kingdom of Northumbria around the 7th century. It was disputed between the kingdoms Northumbria and Mercia some time prior to the arrival of Danish settlers in the 9th century.
Geography
Lindsey, as with the rest of Lincolnshire, is generally low-lying. A range of low-hills, the Lincolnshire Wolds, stretches north-to-south parallel to the area's coast with the North Sea. The highest point in the Wolds is Wolds Top (also called Normanby Hill), a 551 ft (168 meter) high hill, and they are the highest land in eastern England between the Yorkshire Wolds and the Kent Downs. Lindsey has a coastline on the North Sea to the east, with the Parts of Holland and Kesteven lying to the south-east and south-west respectively. To the west lie Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire's West Riding; the East Riding of Yorkshire lies to the north across the Humber estuary.
Lindsey, itself a subdivision of Lincolnshire, has three subdivisions of its own; the West, North and South Ridings. As with the other parts of Lincolnshire, the three Ridings are further subdivided into wapentakes (from Old Norse vápnatak), which are equivalent to hundreds in other counties. The West Riding is made up of the Alsagoe, Corringham, Lawress, Manley and Well wapentakes. The North Riding is made up of the Bradley Haverstoe, Ludborough, Walshcroft and Yarborough wapentakes. The South Riding is made up of the Bollingbroke Soke, Calceworth, Candleshoe, Gartree, Hill, Horncastle Soke and Wraggoe wapentakes.
Administration
As of 2024, much of southern and central Lindsey is administered at the Lincolnshire County Council. Lincolnshire County Council's area is divided into seven non-metropolitan districts, which are responsible for some local government functions; the districts East and West Lindsey are named after the subdivision and cover much of its geographical area. The North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire councils administer the northern half of Lindsey.
Between the years 1888 and 1974, the Parts of Lindsey lent its name to Lindsey County Council, which covered a similar (but not identical) area. Grimsby and Lincoln had their own county boroughs, independent of the council. From 1974 to 1996, the areas of Lindsey now administered by North and North East Lincolnshire were administered by Humberside County Council.
