Barholm
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Barholm ˈ is a village in Lincolnshire
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
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. 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."

Local Administration

Barholm is currently run through a Parish Meeting of its Residents not a Parish Council along with Two District Councillors and a County Councillor. The current District councillors are Kelham Cooke (Con) and Rosemary Woolley (Con)
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