The parts were three subdivisions of the English county of Lincolnshire. They were used for local government until the enactment of the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974.
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The three parts were Lindsey in the north, itself traditionally divided into three ridings (North, South and West); Kesteven in the south-west; and Holland in the south-east. The three parts touched in a tripoint somewhere near Chapel Hill. Each of the parts has its own quarter sessions, and each became an administrative county with its own county council in 1889. Grimsby and Lincoln were both county boroughs outside the administrative counties.
This arrangement lasted until 1974, when the administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished. The north of Lindsay became part of the new county of Humberside and was divided between five districts, and the remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into seven districts. Each county was two-tier, with the district councils beneath a county council. Humberside was abolished in 1996 and its districts reorganised into unitary authority areas, with North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire becoming part of the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
Although the parts no longer exist as units of local government, they are still recognised as broad geographical areas of Lincolnshire, and their names live on in some of the county's district councils (East and West Lindsey, North and South Kesteven, and South Holland).
