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The Lincoln Danes settled the area formerly occupied by the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, where the Vikings had previously overwintered in the nearby fortress of Torksey in Lindsey from 873 to 874. Lincoln probably surrendered in 918 [ 9 ] following the capitulation of all the Danish territories on the border of Mercia and Wessex.
Later, Lindsey was applied to only the northern core, around Lincoln; it was defined as one of the three 'Parts of Lincolnshire', along with Holland in the south-east and Kesteven in the south west. In 1888 when county councils were set up, Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven each were authorized to have separate "Part" councils.
A sokeman was a free man within the lord's soke, or jurisdiction. [29] According to many scholars, "... the Danelaw was an especially ‘free’ area of Britain because the rank and file of the Danish armies, from whom sokemen were descended, had settled in the area and imported their own social system." [30]
Pages in category "Boroughs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Lincoln was incorporated on February 6, 1958, before which it was Lincoln Township. The change in governmental structure came after a portion of the borough attempted to secede from Lincoln Township to annex with Liberty Borough. [6] Dead Man's Hollow is a 450-acre conservation area whose boundary lies within the borough. [7] [8]
In 972 King Edgar made Stamford a borough. The Anglo-Saxons and Danes faced each other across the river. [9] The town had grown as a Danish settlement at the lowest point that the Welland could be crossed by ford or bridge. Stamford was the only one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw not to become a county town.
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Beckingham is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.The population of the civil parish (including Stapleford) at the 2011 census was 452. [1]