Boultham is a suburb of the

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

city and

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, England. The population of the City of Lincoln ward at the 2011 census was 7,465. The

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of Boultham covers most of Lincoln west of the

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near Lincoln High Street. The northern boundary is defined by

Brayford Pool The Brayford Pool is a natural lake formed from a widening of the River Witham in the centre of the city of Lincoln in England. It was used as a port by the Romans – who connected it to the River Trent by constructing the Foss Dyke – and has ...

and the Fossdyke as far as Carholme Golf Course. The parish includes the

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, Hartsholme and Swanpool. Tritton Road ( B1003) runs through the centre of Boultham. As at 2011, the Boultham ward on Lincoln City Council is represented by three Labour Party councillors; the ward on Lincolnshire County Council by one Labour councillor. A new library opened in June 2006.

Nature reserve

Boultham Mere, created in 1989, is a nature reserve situated near a railway line and looked after by the

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, (part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership), covers the whole ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1948 as a voluntary charitable organisation dedicated to conserving the wildlife and wild ...

. Its colony of Variable Damselfly is of national importance.

References

External links

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"Boultham Mere"
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves

Lincsbirdclub.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2013
"Boultham Mere"
Boulthamere.blogspot.com

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