On 30/06/10 19:56, Zhang Dawei wrote:
Grantham was never in the part of Lincolnshire called "Holland": it
was in Kesteven,

It still is, or at least the district council is that of South Kesteven.

the other part (if we omit Lincoln itself), in the
north of the county, being Lindsey. If you have ever been to Boston,
then that was the largest town in the part of Lincolnshire called
"Holland".

The other significant town (with a railway station) in Holland being
Spalding.

(Sometimes, the parts of Lincolnshire seemed also to be
called "counties" when I lived there, back in the 60s as well.)

I didn't know that until 1974 they had their own county councils as
"Parts" of Lincolnshire, apparently in a similar arrangement to the
Ridings of Yorkshire.

Roger