Bolam, Northumberland
Coordinates: 55°08′10″N 1°51′07″W / 55.136°N 1.852°W
Bolam is a village in the civil parish of Belsay in Northumberland, England. The village is about 20 miles (32 km) north-west of Newcastle, near Bolam West Houses.
History
The Church of England parish church of St Andrew has a late Saxon west tower and is a Grade I listed building.[1]
Shortflatt Tower, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of the village, is a late 15th or early 16th century pele tower, with a 17th-century house attached, and is also Grade I listed.[2]
Bolam is the burial place of Robert de Reymes, a wealthy Suffolk merchant, who in 1296 began the building of Aydon Castle, near Corbridge.
References
- ↑ "Church of St Andrew". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. 28 April 1969. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ↑ "Shortflatt Tower". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. 27 August 1952. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
Further reading
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Richmond, Ian A (1957). Northumberland. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 101–102.
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