Bolam, County Durham

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Legs Cross on Dere Street overlooks Bolam
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Bolam
Location within County Durham
Population84 (2021 census)
Civil parish
  • Bolam
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Durham
Fire County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance North East
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County Durham
54°35′51″N1°41′43″W / 54.59750°N 1.69528°W / 54.59750; -1.69528

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.

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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]

Etymology

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]

References

  1. "Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  2. Teesdale Mercury 27 January 2009 Archived 31 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Mawer, Allen (1891). The Place-names of Northumberland and Durham. Cambridge University Press. p. 27. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  4. "A Key to English Place-Names". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

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