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North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of "Yorkshire and the Humber" in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire. There are three significant towns: Scunthorpe (the administrative centre), Brigg and Barton-upon-Humber. North Lincolnshire covers an area of 326.8 sq mi (846.3 km2) and in mid-2014 it had an estimated population of 169,250. It lies on the south side of the Humber estuary and consists mainly of agricultural land, including land on either side of the River Trent. It borders onto North East Lincolnshire on the east, Lincolnshire on the south, South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire on the west and the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north. The council's administrative base is at the Civic Centre in Scunthorpe. The unitary authority was created in 1996, on the abolition of short-lived county of Humberside (1974-1996). The district was formed by a merger of the boroughs of Glanford and Scunthorpe, and the southern part of the borough of Boothferry. Before the creation of Humberside in 1974, it was in the Part of Lindsey in Lincolnshire. [edit] Research Tips
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. Wikimedia has a map of the post-1974 districts of Lincolnshire.
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