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Holland, Lincolnshire
The Parts of Holland is a historical division of Lincolnshire, England, encompassing the southeast of the county. The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland. Etymology The place name ''Holland'' appears on record in 1060 as ''Hoylandia'' and in the Domesday Book (1086) as ''Hoilant''. The name is most often derived from Old English ''hoh'' ("a hill-spur") + ''land''; giving the name a meaning of "district characterised by hill-spurs" or similar. Formally-identical formations are found in the place-names Holland-on-Sea (Essex) and Up Holland (Lancashire). However, the topographical inappropriateness of a place-name referencing hill-spurs being applied to a low-lying region has been noted and Richard Coates has instead argued that the ''hoi-'' element in early forms represents a Brittonic ''*haiw-'' ("a swamp"). Administration Parts of Holland was one of the three medieval divisions, called ' Parts', of Lincolnshire (the other two being Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Hall, Boston
County Hall is a municipal building in Church Close in Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, a town in Lincolnshire, in England. It served as the offices and meeting place of Holland County Council. History Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, The Holland County Council, county council of the Parts of Holland secured accommodation in the Boston Sessions House, Sessions House in Boston. After finding that arrangement unsatisfactory, county leaders decided to commission dedicated offices. The site they selected was on the east side of the square off Church Close where some older buildings had once stood. The new building was designed in the Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1927. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of 11 bays facing onto the square. The central section of three bays was projected forward to form a full height porte-cochère. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Act 1888
The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. It came into effect on 1 April 1889, except for the County of London, which came into existence on 21 March at the request of the London County Council. The bill Following the 1886 United Kingdom general election, 1886 general election, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative administration headed by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Salisbury was formed. However the Conservatives did not have a majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party. As part of the price for this support the Liberal Unionists demanded that a bill be introduced placing county government under the control of elected councils, modelled on the borough councils introduced by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Accordingly, the Loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowland Rural District
Crowland (modern usage) or Croyland (medieval era name and the one still in ecclesiastical use; cf. ) is a town and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Peterborough and Spalding. Crowland contains two sites of historical interest, Crowland Abbey and Trinity Bridge. History The town's two historical points of interest are the ruined medieval Crowland Abbey and the 14th-century three-sided bridge, Trinity Bridge, which stands at its central point and once spanned the divergence of the River Welland and a distributary. In about 701, a monk named Guthlac came to what was then an island in the Fens to live the life of a hermit. Following in Guthlac's footsteps, a monastic community came into being here, which was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Guthlac in the 8th century. The place-name 'Crowland' is first attested circa 745 AD in the ''Vita S. Guthlaci auctore Felice'', reprinted in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Rural District
Boston was a rural district in Holland, Lincolnshire from 1894 to 1974. It was formed from the Boston rural sanitary district by the Local Government Act 1894 and did not include the municipal borough of Boston. The part of Boston RSD which was in Lindsey formed the Sibsey Rural District. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was merged with Boston in a new borough of Boston The Borough of Boston is a local government district with borough status in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Boston. The borough also includes numerous villages in the surrounding rural area including Wyberton, Sutter .... References {{coord, 52.95, 0.00, dim:30000_region:GB, display=title Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Rural districts of the Parts of Holland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It lies to the south-east of Lincoln, east of Nottingham and north-east of Peterborough. The town had a population of 45,339 at the 2021 census, while the borough had an estimated population of 66,900 at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. The Haven in Boston flows about 5 miles away to the Lincolnshire coast at The Wash, a bay between Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church, colloquially referred to as 'The Stump', the largest parish church in England, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town—most notably Boston, Massachusetts, then a British colony and now part of the United States. Etymology The name ''Boston'' is said to be a contraction of " Saint Botolph's to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Borough
A municipal borough was a type of local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ... district which existed in England and Wales between 1836 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in Scotland from 1833 to 1975 with the reform of royal burghs and creation of police burghs. England and Wales Municipal Corporations Act 1835 Ancient borough, Boroughs had existed in England and Wales since Middle Ages, medieval times. By the late Middle Ages they had come under royal control, with municipal corporation, corporations established by royal charter. These corporations were not popularly elected: characteristically they were self-selecting Oligarchy, oligarchies, were nominated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban District (Great Britain And Ireland)
In England and Wales, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council (UDC), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council. In England and Wales, urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) as subdivisions of administrative counties. A similar model of urban and rural districts was also established in Ireland in 1899, which continued separately in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after 1921. They replaced the earlier system of urban and rural sanitary districts (based on poor law unions) whose functions were taken over by the district councils. The district councils also had wider powers over local matters such as parks, cemeteries and local planning. An urban district usually contained a single parish, while a rural district might contain many. Urban districts were considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural District
A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ..., and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Administrative county, administrative counties.__TOC__ England and Wales In England and Wales rural districts were created in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) along with Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts. They replaced the earlier system of sanitary districts (themselves based on poor law unions, but not replacing them). Each rural district had an elected rural district council (RDC), which inherited the functions of the earlier sanitary di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Act 1894
The Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The act followed the reforms carried out at county level under the Local Government Act 1888 ( 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The 1894 legislation introduced elected councils at district and parish level. The principal effects of the act were: *The creation a system of urban and rural districts with elected councils. These, along with the town councils of municipal boroughs created earlier in the century, formed a second tier of local government below the existing county councils. *The establishment of elected parish councils in rural areas. *The reform of the boards of guardians of poor law unions. *The entitlement of women who owned property to vote in local elections, become poor law guardians, and act on school boards. The new district councils were based on the existing urban and rural s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skirbeck (wapentake)
Skirbeck Wapentake was a local government unit in the Parts of Holland Lincolnshire, England from the early eleventh century, until the wapentakes were abolished by the Local Government Act of 1888. Etymology and history In most of England, the corresponding local unit was the hundred, which was a grouping of about a hundred households. Around a thousand years ago, it was important as a unit for gathering taxes and raising men for the citizen army of the time, known as the ''Fyrd''. The idea of the hundred goes back at least to the time of the Roman emperor ''Tacitus'', but the version called the wapentake belongs to the Danish-influenced part of England. It therefore dates in that country, from the tenth or very early eleventh century. Hamlets and parishes The area covered included several villages, hamlets, and parishes around the borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, including Skirbeck Skirbeck is a historic village and suburb of Boston in Lincolnshire, England. Skirbeck is a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirton (wapentake)
Kirton may refer to: Places *Kirton, Lincolnshire, (also Kirton in Holland), England *Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England *Kirton, Nottinghamshire, England * Kirton, Suffolk, England People with the surname * Earle Kirton, New Zealand rugby union player (All Black) * Alfred Kirton, Australian (Victorian) politician * Andrew Kirton, former General Secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party The New Zealand Labour Party, also known simply as Labour (), is a Centre-left politics, centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers descri ... * Harold Kirton, English cricketer * Colin Kirton, Malaysian actor * Joseph Kirton, Australian (Victorian) politician * Michael John Kirton, occupational psychologist * Nicholas Kirton (born 1998), Canadian cricketer * Rex S Kirton, longtime Mayor of Upper Hutt, New Zealand {{Disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elloe (wapentake) , a comune in Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
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Elloe is a sub-regional name in South Holland, Lincolnshire, England. It may refer to: In Lincolnshire, England * Elloe (wapentake), in Parts of Holland * Elloe Stone, in Moulton, Lincolnshire * Deanery of Elloe East, an administrative area of the Diocese of Lincoln * Deanery of Elloe West, an administrative area of the Diocese of Lincoln * East Elloe Rural District Other uses * Elloe Kaifi, a Marvel Comics character See also * Elloes, a petty sessional division in Lincolnshire * Ello Ello ( Brianzöö: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about southwest of Lecco Lecco (, , ; ) is a city of approximately 47,000 inhabitants in Lom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
