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Brackenborough with Little Grimsby is a civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 78, including both Brackenborough and Little Grimsby. . On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with the parish of Brackenborough to form "Brackenborough with Little Grimsby". As of the 2021 Census the population of the merged parish was only 83. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Brackenborough_with_Little_Grimsby). This is the limit of information in Wikipedia for the former parishes of Brackenborough and Little Grimsby although they only merged as one parish in 1987. No history is provided. The following quote comes from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales published about 1870 and found in A Vision of Britain, a website provided by the Geography Department of the University of Southampton, Hampshire, England:
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The south of Lincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason. There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list. From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland (in the southeast), Parts of Kesteven (in the southwest) and Parts of Lindsey (in the north of the county). These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.
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