Halam is a village and

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Newark and Sherwood Newark and Sherwood is a local government district and is the largest district in Nottinghamshire, England. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the municipal borough of Newark with Newark Rural District and Southwell Rural ...

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Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

, England, with a population of 372 in 2001, increasing to 426 at the 2011 Census. It is located to the west of Southwell. The parish church, which was built in the 11th–12th centuries, is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel. At the north end of the village is an 18th-century

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, three storeys with a lean-to wheelhouse and adjoining cottage.Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. page 136.Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. There is a public house called the ''Waggon & Horses'', which is the first carbon-neutral pub in the United Kingdom and home of the Nottinghamshire Pie, a dish created by chef Roy Wood. The school is called Halam Church of England Primary School. Halam is the birthplace of travel writer and academic Robert Macfarlane.

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Villages in Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub