Tupholme is a village in the

East Lindsey East Lindsey is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Horncastle and the largest town is Skegness. Other towns include Alford, Lincolnshire, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, L ...

district of

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, England. It is situated east from

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, and is the site of the ruined

Tupholme Abbey Tupholme Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey close to the River Witham some east of the city of Lincoln, England and one of nine such abbeys within the historical county. The Witham valley in Lincolnshire is notable for its high concentration ...

on the road between

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and

Bardney Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 (including Southrey) at the 2011 census. The village sits on the e ...

. The population is included in the civil parish of Bucknall. The Abbey, founded before 1190 by Gilbert and Alan de Neville, was the home of

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white canons, numbering around 24 in the 15th century."Abbeys of the Witham Valley"
''Heritage Lincolnshire''; retrieved 28 April 2011 The ruins chiefly consist of parts of the Early English wall of the

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with

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, and a reader's pulpit with

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ed arches.Cox, J. Charles (1916); ''Lincolnshire'' p. 321; Methuen & Co. Ltd.; retrieved 23 April 2011 The site of the abbey was granted to Sir Thomas Heneage of

Hainton Hainton is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A157 road, west from Louth, Lincolnshire, Louth and south-east from Market Rasen. Hainton is listed in the Domesday Book of 108 ...

. Sir Thomas built a grand house, based on the monastic buildings, for his daughter Elizabeth and her husband

William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham (c.1515 – 30 July 1570) was an English nobleman and soldier who in 1547 was made an hereditary peer of the House of Lords. Family William Willoughby was the son of Sir Christopher Willoughb ...

. This mansion passed through the Willoughby family until it was sold in 1661 to the Vyner family. Around 1700 the Vyners demolished the Tudor mansion and built a new hall (Tupholme Hall, demolished 1976) nearby. They retained one wall of the medieval abbey/house as an eye-catching ornament in their surrounding parkland. The notorious slave-owner

Thomas Thistlewood Thomas Thistlewood (16 March 1721 – 30 November 1786) was an English-born slave-owner, serial rapist, planter and diarist who spent the majority of his life in the British colony of Jamaica. Born in Tupholme, Lincolnshire, Thistlewood migrate ...

was born in Tupholme in 1721. The site held a

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in 1970 and 1971,"Bardney Village History"
''lincolnshire.gov.uk''; retrieved 28 April 2011 and in 1972 a Rock Festival with

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and

The Beach Boys The Beach Boys are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian Wilson, Brian, Dennis Wilson, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their f ...

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''. Retrieved 28 April 2011 {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District Bardney