Bolam, Durham

Historical Description

Bolam, a township and a chapelry in Gainford parish, Durham, 5½ miles S of Bishop Auckland, and 9 from Darlington. It has a post and money order office under Heighington (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Gainford. Acreage, 1013; population of the township, 134; of the chapelry, 169. The latter was constituted in 1867. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £129, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bolam from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bolam)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bolam are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online:

• Hartlepool Mail
• Northern Echo
• Durham County Advertiser
• Teesdale Mercury