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
Lincoln Township, Sherman County, Kansas Lincoln Township, Sherman County, Kansas Lincoln Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States. The population was 95 at the 2000 census. Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships: It lies west of the county seat of Goodland. There are no cities in the township, although the unincorporated community of Ruleton lies in the center of the township. Intermittent headwaters of Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, flow through Lincoln Township. Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 travel east–west through Lincoln Township. A railroad line also travels