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The current text states:
This suggests a word whose singular is "Parts" and plural is "Parts". I don't think that is correct. There seems some confusion in the terminology here. Let me use superscripts 1 and 2 to distinguish the two senses:
So "the Parts2 of Kesteven" form one of the Parts1 of Lincolnshire
For analogy, there is a country called "the United States of America", but one would not say this country was a "States".
In the Oxford English Dictionary, "part (noun 1)" has 18 subsenses; Part1 is sense 3a, and Part2 is sense 18a:
3. a. A piece or section of something which together with another or others makes up the whole (whether actually separate from the rest or not); an amount, but not all, of a thing or a number of things (material or immaterial); any of the smaller things into which a thing is or may be divided (in reality or notionally); a portion, segment, constituent, fraction. Freq. with plural concord when denoting a number of people or things.
18. a. A portion of a country or territory, or of the world; a country, region, or area. Freq. in pl.(often with collective rather than plural sense). In constructions such as parts of the world, the sense is simply 3a. In quot. 1833 spec. (inpl. and usu. with capital initial): each of the three administrative districts (Holland, Kesteven, and Lindsey) into which the county of Lincolnshire in eastern England was formerly divided.
"the three Parts of Lincolnshire" on Google books gives a fair few matches.
I've added subscripts in the following extract from Parliamentary Papers: Militia Bill 1854 which uses Part1 in the singular and plural. Parts2 is never found in the singular.
XXI. And whereas it is necessary to determine , by Law the Proportions in which the several Divisions of the County Lincoln known as the Parts2 of Kesteven, Holland, and Lindsey respectively should contribute to the Expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the said County in respect to a Place for Militia Stores under this or the recited Acts: Be it therefore enacted, That of the Sums which have been subsequently to the passing of the said Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Victoria, Chapter Fifty, or which may be hereafter expended from Time to Time for the Purposes aforesaid in respect to the whole Number of Militia raised or to be raised in and for the said County, the Proportions chargeable on the said Parts1 respectively shall be as follows, namely, on Lindsey One Moiety of the whole Sum or Sums, and on Kesteven Four Sevenths, and on Holland Three Sevenths of the remaining Moiety thereof.
XXII. And whereas a separate and distinct County Rate is now raised, and a separate Commission of the Peace exists in and for each of the said Three Parts1 or Divisions: Be it enacted, That the Proportion, of the whole Charge hereby made payable by each such Part1 shall be separately raised in and for each Part1, and shall be paid and accounted for by the respective Treasurer of each Part1, and may be borrowed and secured upon Mortgage of the Rate leviable in each Part1 respectively, and under the Authority and Control of the Justices acting in and for each Part1, and at the General or Quarter Sessions 30 held in and for the same respectively, in like Manner for the Purposes now specified as if each of the said Parts1 were a distinct and separate County.
XXIII. Each of the said Parts1 of the County of Lincoln shall also be deemed to be a separate County for the Purpose of determining the Proportion in which the several Boroughs and other Places not liable to County Rates situated therein respectively shall contribute to the Expenses incurred or to be incurred as aforesaid under this or the recited Acts, the said several Boroughs and Places being deemed liable to contribute in aid of the several Parts1 in which they are locally situated respectively; and for the Purposes of this Act the City of Lincoln shall be held to be in the Parts2 of Lindsey, and the Borough of Stamford in the Parts2 of Kesteven.
jnestorius(talk) 21:38, 9 March 2009 (UTC)Reply