Barholm
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Barholm ˈ is a village in Lincolnshire
, England
. It is off the A15 road, eight miles south-west of Bourne.
It is first recorded as Berc(a)ham in 1086; the name is from Old English beorg + hām or hamm and means 'homestead or enclosure on a hill.'
Hereward (later known as Hereward the Wake)owned land in Barholm and the nearby village of Stow in the period before the Norman conquest in 1066.
The church received a new tower during the English Civil War
and an inscription records:
"Was ever such a thing
Since the Creation?
A new steeple built
In the time of vexation."
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is off the A15 road, eight miles south-west of Bourne.
It is first recorded as Berc(a)ham in 1086; the name is from Old English beorg + hām or hamm and means 'homestead or enclosure on a hill.'
Hereward (later known as Hereward the Wake)owned land in Barholm and the nearby village of Stow in the period before the Norman conquest in 1066.
The church received a new tower during the English Civil War
English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...
and an inscription records:
"Was ever such a thing
Since the Creation?
A new steeple built
In the time of vexation."