Lincoln, England home to the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University, and to Lincoln City Football Club. The earliest origins of Lincoln can be traced to the remains of an Iron Age settlement of round wooden dwellings (which were discovered by archaeologists in 1972) that have been dated to the 1st century BC. This settlement was built by a deep pool (the modern Brayford Pool) in the River Witham at the foot of a large hill (on which the Normans later built Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle). The origins of the name Lincoln may come from this period, when the settlement
City of Port Lincoln in period newspapers as either the "Port Lincoln" or "Lincoln" council, but the landmark "District Councils Act 1887", which undertook a major reorganisation of South Australian local government, referred to it as the District Council of Lincoln. The City of Port Lincoln municipality was created when the town of Port Lincoln incorporated and seceded from the district council in 1921, becoming the Corporate Town of Port Lincoln. It gained its present name when it was granted city status on 21 January 1971. The former District Council of Lincoln was renamed the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula in 1988, and