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{{Short description|Traditional division of Lincolnshire, England}}
{{for|people named Kesteven|Kesteven (surname)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox historic subdivision|
   |Name=              Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven
   |HQ=                [[Sleaford]]
   |Government=        [[Kesteven County Council]]
   |Status=            [[Administrative county]]
   |Start=             1889
   |End=               1974
   |Replace=           [[Lincolnshire]]
   |Map=               [[File:Kesteven - Lincolnshire Brit Isles section.svg|260px]]
   |Arms= [[File:Arms of Kesteven County Council.svg|200px|The arms of Kesteven County Council]]
}}
The '''Parts of Kesteven''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɛ|s|t|ə|v|ən}} or {{IPAc-en|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 session]]s), along with the two other [[Parts of Lincolnshire]], [[Lindsey (British subdivision)|Lindsey]] and [[Holland, Lincolnshire|Holland]].

==Etymology==
The name ''Kesteven'' is first attested in the late tenth century Latin translation of the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] by [[Æthelweard]], in the form {{lang|ang|Ceoftefne}} (agreed by scholars to be a scribal error for {{lang|ang|Ceostefne}}). The name appears in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Chetsteven'' and from 1185 as {{lang|enm|Ketsteuene}}.<ref>The Chronicle of Aethelweard, ed. A.Campbell, London, 1962, quoted in Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names, Cameron, English Place-Name Society, 1998 (p.72)</ref><ref>Pipe Rolls, quoted in Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names, Cameron, English Place-Name Society, 1998 (p.72)</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. ''Kesteven''.</ref> The first part of the name comes from the [[Common Brittonic]] word ''{{lang|owl|*ceto-}}'' ("[[forest|woodland]]"), still found in [[Welsh language|Modern Welsh]] as ''{{lang|cy|coed}}''. The second element is the [[Old Norse]] word {{lang|non|stefna}} ("meeting place"). The name, therefore, means "meeting place at Coed, i.e. the wood".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |date=January 1929 |title=Etymological notes |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00393272908586734 |journal=Studia Neophilologica |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=28–40 |doi=10.1080/00393272908586734 |issn=0039-3274|url-access=subscription }}, pp. 36–37.</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Coates |first=Richard |title=Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain |last2=Breeze |first2=Andrew |publisher=Tyas |year=2000 |isbn=1900289415 |location=Stamford}}.</ref>{{rp|321}}

==Administrative areas==
===Wapentakes and Sokes===
Historically, Lincolnshire was divided into [[Wapentake|wapentakes]], [[Hundred (county division)|hundreds]] and [[Soke (legal)|sokes]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Parson |first1=William |title=The History and Directory of the Towns and Principal Villages in the County of Lincoln |date=1826 |publisher=William White & Co. |location=Leeds |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fC6ZRVXMIkAC&q=lawress%20wapentake&pg=PA23 |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> The following made up Kesteven:

* Aswardhurn Wapentake
* [[Aveland]] Wapentake
* [[Wapentake of Beltisloe|Beltisloe Wapentake]]
* [[Boothby Graffoe|Boothby Graffoe]] Wapentake
* Flaxwell Wapentake
* [[Langoe (wapentake)|Langoe Wapentake]]
* [[Loveden (wapentake)|Lovedon]] Wapentake
* Ness Wapentake
* [[Winnibriggs and Threo]] Wapentake
* Borough and Soke of [[Grantham]]
* [[Stamford, Lincolnshire|Stamford]] Borough

=== Local Government Act 1888 ===
The three parts were given separate elected [[county council]]s in 1889 by the [[Local Government Act 1888]], and recognised as [[administrative counties of England|administrative counties]].<ref>The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c.41)</ref>  Kesteven lies in the south-west of Lincolnshire.  It includes the towns of:

* [[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]]
* [[Bracebridge, Lincolnshire|Bracebridge]]
* [[Grantham]]
* [[Market Deeping]]
* [[Sleaford]]
* [[Stamford, England|Stamford]]

===Local Government Act 1894===
Under the [[Local Government Act 1894]] Kesteven was divided into a number of [[rural district]] and [[urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]]s based on earlier [[sanitary district]]s:<ref>The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73)</ref>

*[[Bourne Rural District]]
*[[Branston Rural District]]
*[[Grantham Rural District]]
*[[Claypole Rural District]]
*[[Sleaford Rural District]]
*[[Uffington Rural District]]

The urban districts and boroughs were:
*[[Bourne, Lincolnshire|Bourne]]
*[[Bracebridge, Lincolnshire|Bracebridge]]
*[[Grantham, Lincolnshire|Grantham]] (borough)
*[[Ruskington]]
*[[Sleaford]]
*[[Stamford, Lincolnshire|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 [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]] that same year, becoming associated with the Parts of Lindsey.

===Local Government Act 1929===
The rural districts were re-organised by a [[Local Government Act 1929|County Review Order]] in 1929, to create four new districts named after points of the compass:<ref>Local Government Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo V c.17)</ref>

*[[East Kesteven Rural District]]
*[[North Kesteven Rural District]]
*[[South Kesteven Rural District]]
*[[West Kesteven Rural District]]

===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 [[Local Government Act 1972]], the four rural districts in Kesteven, along with the boroughs and urban district, merged into two [[districts of England|district councils]]:<ref>Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. 70)</ref>

*[[North Kesteven|North Kesteven District Council]] - A merger of North and East Rural Districts and Sleaford Urban District
*[[South Kesteven|South Kesteven District Council]] - A merger of South and West Rural Districts and the boroughs of Grantham and Stamford

==Titles of nobility associated with Kesteven==
* The title of ''[[Trollope baronets|Baron Kesteven]]'' existed from 1868 until 1915.
* The title of ''[[Earl of Lindsey|Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]]'' existed from 1715 to 1809.
* [[Margaret Thatcher]], former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] and Kesteven native, chose 'of Kesteven' as the [[territorial designation]] for her [[life peerage]] in 1992, becoming ''Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire''.<ref>Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990</ref>

==See also==
*[[Lindsey, Lincolnshire|Parts of Lindsey]]
*[[Parts of Holland]]
*[[Rutland]]
*[[Huntingdonshire]]
*[[Isle of Ely]]
*[[Soke of Peterborough]]

==References==
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{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite book |last=Youngs |first= Frederic A |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I: Southern England |year=1979 |publisher=[[Royal Historical Society]] |location=London |isbn=0-901050-67-9}}
*{{cite book |last=Youngs |first= Frederic A|title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol2: Northern England |year=1991 |publisher=[[Royal Historical Society]] |location=London |isbn=0-86193-127-0}}
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