Barholm is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

of Barholm and Stowe, in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

district of

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, England. It is west from the

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, and south from Bourne. In 1921 the parish had a population of 170. Barholm is first recorded as "Berc(a)ham" in 1086; the name is from

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

''beorg'' + ''hām'' or ''hamm'' and means "homestead or enclosure on a hill."

Hereward Hereward the Wake (Old English pronunciation /ˈhɛ.rɛ.ward/ , modern English pronunciation / ) (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of E ...

(later known as Hereward the Wake) owned land in Barholm and the nearby village of Stowe in the period before the

Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Norman, French people, French, Flemish people, Flemish, and Bretons, Breton troops, all led by the Du ...

in 1066. St Martin's Church is Grade I listed. The church received a new tower during the

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and an inscription with the date 1648 reads: "Was ever such a thing
Since the Creation?
A new steeple built
In the time of vexation."

Local government

On 1 April 1931 the parish was abolished and merged with Stowe to form "Barholm and Stowe", part also went to

Market Deeping Market Deeping is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 6,008. History The town's ma ...

Baston Baston is a village and parish on the edge of The Fens and in the administrative district of South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The 2011 census reported the parish had 1,469 people in 555 households. Like most fen-edge parishes, it was la ...

and Langtoft. Barholm and Stowe parish is run through a

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of its residents rather than a parish council. Two district councillors represent Casewick Ward on South Kesteven District Council and a county councillor represents Deepings West & Rural Division on

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. The district councillors elected in 2023 are Rosemary Trollope-Bellew (Con) and Vanessa Smith (Green). The county councillor elected in 2021 is Ashley Baxter (Ind).

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* * Villages in Lincolnshire Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub