Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, which is probably a corruption of LindumColonia, the Lin referring to the expanse of waterbelow the hill, while the dun or don is the fort onthe hill. The Normans, quaintly enough, transposedLincoln into Nicole, and they did the same with the nameof the county. Since before the Norman Conquest, at all events,Lincolnshire has been separated off into three divisionscalled Parts—the Parts of Lindsey, the Parts of Kesteven,and the Parts of Holland. Of these, the first, Lindsey (inDomesday Book Lindesie), is named either from Lincolnor as the eye or island of the Lindissi or Lindiswaraswho inhabited it. It comprises about the northern halfof the county, and in Domesday Book was sub-dividedagain into three Redings, Ridings, or Tridings, northsouth, and west. The second division (in DomesdayChetsteven) occupies the south-west quarter of the county,and its name is probably derived (according to Streat-field) from Coedstefne=the wood jutting out into the .^: Nife^ it^ I N W: t .Jir^ M\ ^mh
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Crowlaxd Abbey from the East. Lincolnshire 155 fen. It still is the most wooded portion of the county.The third division, Holland (in Domesday Hoiland) takesthe remaining south-eastern quarter, and signifies, like itsneighbour across the North Sea, the hollow land, as beingbelow the level of the sea in many parts. It was theland of the Fenmen, the Gyrwas, and to this day thedwellers in the fens are humorously supposed (by thehill folk) to be web-footed, and to have their abdomenscoloured yellow! Fuller (writing in 1662) quaintly com-pares the shape of the county to a bended bow, the seamaking the back, the rivers Welland and Humber thetwo horns thereof, whilst Trent hangeth down like abroken string, as being somewhat of the shortest. TheTrent, indeed, would seem to be the natural boundaryto the county on the west, but Nottinghamshire cutsa cantle off on the east side of that river betweenNewark and Newton-on-Trent (the most north-easterlyportion actually coming to within five miles of

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