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West Kesteven was a rural district in Parts of Kesteven, England and, thus, also in Lincolnshire, from 1931 to 1974.
It was formed under a County Review Order, by the merger of most of
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It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, being merged into the new South Kesteven District.
The whole of Kesteven was redivided into a new set of four rural districts named from the points of the compass in 1931. At the same time a number of neighbouring parishes were merged with the names of the new civil parishes made by combining the names of the earlier parishes.
Parishes
Parish | Description | Duration | Notes
| Allington | township, civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Ancaster | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Barkston | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Barrowby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Belton and Manthorpe | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Boothby Pagnell | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Braceby and Sapperton | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Burton Coggles | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Carlton Scroop | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Caythorpe | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Claypole | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Colsterworth | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Denton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Easton | township, civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Fenton near Claypole | chapelry, civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Foston | chapelry, civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Fulbeck | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Great Gonerby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Great Ponton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Gunby and Stainby | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Harlaxton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Heydour | township, parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Honington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Hough on the Hill | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Hougham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Ingoldsby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Lenton Keisby and Osgodby | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Little Ponton and Stroxton | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Long Bennington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Marston | chapelry, civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Normanton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| North Witham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Old Somerby | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Pickworth | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Ropsley and Humby | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Sedgebrook | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Skillington | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| South Witham | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Stoke Rochford | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Stubton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Syston | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Welby | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Westborough and Dry Doddington | civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Claypole Rural District in 1931
| Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
| Wyville with Hungerton | parish (ancient), civil parish | 1931 - 1974 | from Grantham Rural District in 1931
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Research Tips
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, Parts of Kesteven and Parts of Lindsey. 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.
- Maps provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time show all the parishes and many villages and hamlets. (Small local reorganization of parishes took place in the 1930s led to differences between the latter two maps.):
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- FindMyPast now has a large collection of Lincolnshire baptisms, banns, marriages and burials now available to search by name, year, place and parent's names. This is a pay website. (blog dated 16 Sep 2016)
- GENUKI's page on Lincolnshire's Archive Service gives addresses, phone numbers, webpages for all archive offices, museums and libraries in Lincolnshire which may store old records and also presents a list entitled "Hints for the new researcher" which may include details of which you are not aware. These suggestions are becoming more and more outdated, but there's no telling what may be expected in a small library.
- GENUKI also has pages of information on individual parishes, particularly ecclesiastical parishes. The author may just come up with morsels not supplied in other internet-available sources.
- Deceased Online now has records for 11 cemeteries and two crematoria in Lincolnshire. This includes Grimsby's Scartho Road cemetery, Scartho Road crematorium, and Cleethorpes cemetery, council records for the City of Lincoln and Gainsborough, and older church records from The National Archives for St Michael's in Stamford, and St Mark's in Lincoln, dating back to 1707. This is a pay website.
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