Bolam | |
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![]() Legs Cross on Dere Street overlooks Bolam | |
Location within County Durham | |
Population | 84 (2021 census) |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Durham |
Fire | County Durham and Darlington |
Ambulance | North East |
Bolam is a small village located in County Durham, England. The parish population (including Hilton and Morton Tinmouth) at the 2011 census was 209, [1] in 2021 the parish of Bolam alone had 84. It is situated a few miles to the north-west of Darlington.
In 2009 Npower Renewables identified an area of land to the north-west of Bolam as a possible site for the location of seven wind turbines, each up to 125 metres tall. [2]
The name Bolam was first recorded as Bolum in c. 1155. It may derive from Old English bol ("high swell of land") + ham ("homstead"). [3] Or else, it may mean "at the tree trunks"; from Old English bola, Old Norse bolr ("tree-trunk, log, plank"). [4]
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