North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire, local government unitary authority, or administrative area, north-eastern England, bordered on the north by East Riding of Yorkshire unitary authority and the Humber estuary, on the east by the Humber estuary and North-East Lincolnshire, on the south by the counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, and on the west by Doncaster unitary authority in South Yorkshire metropolitan county, and the county of North Yorkshire. Brigg is the administrative centre of the unitary authority, which came into existence on April 1, 1996, and comprises the Glanford and Scunthorpe districts, and part of the Boothferry district of the former county of Humberside. It was established as a result of the review of local administration in the non-metropolitan counties of England carried out by the Local Government Commission established under the Local Government Act 1992. The commission recommended that Humberside be abolished and that the county and nine district councils which administered the area be replaced by four, all-purpose unitary authorities, of which North Lincolnshire is one. The others are East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, and North-East Lincolnshire. Before 1974, when Humberside was created under the local government reforms implemented in that year, the area of North Lincolnshire was part of Lincolnshire. For ceremonial and related occasions the unitary authority forms part of Lincolnshire, whose pre-1974 boundaries have been restored for this purpose. For the physical geography, settlement, economy, and history of the area, see Humberside; Lincolnshire. Population 152,839 (2001).