Barham and Woolley
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W
Barham and Woolley is a civil parish in eastern England, around 20 km south of the city of Peterborough . It is historically part of the county of Huntingdonshire , which was incorporated into the county of Cambridgeshire in 1974 as part of an administrative reform . The municipality covers an area of 7.64 km² and in 2006 only had 60 inhabitants.
It consists of the two hamlets of Barham and Woolley, which were initially merged into one parish in 1935 ( ecclesiastical parish ); In 1965 it was converted into a civil parish.
The village of Barham is located on a hill in a hilly landscape with fertile clay soils. It was first documented as Bercheham in the 9th century. It has always belonged to the Spaldwick estate , which Ely Abbey owned in 991 . The village church probably dates from the 12th century, it was given its current Gothic appearance with the redesign of the chancel around 1300, the pointed arched windows date from the 14th century.
The oldest walls in Woolley Church are believed to be around 1300; However, it was abandoned and partially demolished in the 1960s and is only preserved as a ruin.
Web links
- Parishes: Barham - Digitized entry in: William Page, Granville Proby, S. Inskip Ladds (ed.): A History of the County of Huntingdon Vol. 3, 1936.
- Parish Church of St. Giles - Entry of the Church of Barham in the English monument protection register
- Entry of Barham Church at Historic England
- Parish Church of St. Mary - Entry of the church ruins of Woolley in the English monument protection register
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Mid-2006 population estimates
- ↑ Relationships / unit history of BARHAM AND WOOLLEY ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
