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| | Diocese of Lincoln History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | The Diocese of Lincoln, as constituted by William the Conqueror in 1072, stretched from the Humber to the Thames, covering the modern counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. |
 | | The Archdeaconries of Oxford and Northampton were taken away from the Diocese in 1541-2 to form the new Dioceses of Oxford and Peterborough, leaving the Diocese divided geographically into a northern and a southern portion. |
 | | In 1837 the Archdeaconries of Bedford and Huntingdon, with the exception of the Hertfordshire parishes, were transferred to the Diocese of Ely, the Archdeaconry of Buckingham to the Diocese of Oxford and the Archdeaconry of Leicester to the Diocese of Peterborough. |
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