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Kesteven

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Also known as Parts of Kesteven, Kestevenshire

The Parts of Kesteven ( or ) 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.

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  • Etymology
  • Administrative areas
  • Wapentakes and Sokes
  • Local Government Act 1888
  • Local Government Act 1894
  • Local Government Act 1929
  • Local Government Act 1972
  • Titles of nobility associated with Kesteven
  • See also
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The Parts of Kesteven ( or ) 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.

==Etymology== The name Kesteven is first attested in the late tenth century Latin translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Æthelweard, in the form (agreed by scholars to be a scribal error for ). The name appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Chetsteven and from 1185 as . The first part of the name comes from the Common Brittonic word ' ("woodland"), still found in Modern Welsh as '. The second element is the Old Norse word ("meeting place"). The name, therefore, means "meeting place at Coed, i.e. the wood".

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