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Kesteven

Former Prime Minister (and Kesteven native) Margaret Thatcher took 'of Kesteven' as the territorial designation for her peerage.


Florey, Australian Capital Territory

Florey is the closest suburb to the Belconnen Town Centre (other than the suburb of Belconnen itself), and has its own shopping centre, on the corner of Kesteven Street and Ratcliffe Crescent.

Grantham and Kesteven Hospital

It is one of four main hospitals in Lincolnshire, being the third largest, and covers the Kesteven area of the county, as well as east Leicestershire and Rutland.

Kesteven and Sleaford High School

Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy (KSHSSA), formerly 'Kesteven and Sleaford High School' (KSHS), is a selective school with academy status for girls aged between eleven and sixteeen and girls and boys between sixteen and eighteen, located on Jermyn Street in the small market town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, close to Sleaford railway station.

Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Lord Willougby inherited the earldom of Lindsey in 1701, and was invested a Privy Counsellor one month later; along with the Earldom of Lindsey, he also inherited the offices of Lord Great Chamberlain and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, both of which he would hold until his death and would pass onto his son, the 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.

South Forty-Foot Drain

The main job of the Drain is to gather the waters pumped from the Kesteven Fens, the Holland Fens and the Weir Dyke, a soak dike in Bourne North Fen, alongside the Bourne Eau and River Glen, northwards and eastwards to the Black Sluice at Boston, where they are discharged to the tidal waters of The Haven.


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