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Tupholme is a village in the East Lindsey district of
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...
, England. It is situated east from
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, and is the site of the ruined
Tupholme Abbey Tupholme Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey close to the River Witham some east of the city of Lincoln, England. The Witham valley in Lincolnshire is notable for its high concentration of monasteries—there were six on the east bank and th ...
on the road between
Horncastle Horncastle is a town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, east of Lincoln. Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census and estimated at 7,123 in 2019. A section of the ancient Roman walls remains. History Romans Alt ...
and
Bardney Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 (including Southrey) at the 2011 census. The village sits on the e ...
. The population is included in the civil parish of Bucknall. The Abbey, founded before 1190 by Gilbert and Alan de Neville, was the home of Premonstratensian white canons, numbering around 24 in the 15th century."Abbeys of the Witham Valley"
''Heritage Lincolnshire''; retrieved 28 April 2011
The ruins chiefly consist of parts of the Early English wall of the
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with
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, and a reader's pulpit with
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ed arches.Cox, J. Charles (1916); ''Lincolnshire'' p. 321; Methuen & Co. Ltd.; retrieved 23 April 2011 The site of the abbey was granted to Sir Thomas Heneage of Hainton. Sir Thomas built a grand house, based on the monastic buildings, for his daughter Elizabeth and her husband
William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham (c.1515 – 30 July 1570) was an English nobleman and soldier who in 1547 was made an hereditary peer of the House of Lords. Family William Willoughby was the son of Sir Christopher Willoughby o ...
. This mansion passed through the Willoughby family until it was sold in 1661 to the Vyner family. Around 1700 the Vyners demolished the Tudor mansion and built a new hall (Tupholme Hall, demolished 1976) nearby. They retained one wall of the medieval abbey/house as an eye-catching ornament in their surrounding parkland. The notorious slave-owner
Thomas Thistlewood Thomas Thistlewood (16 March 1721 ‒ 30 November 1786) was an English planter in colonial Jamaica. Thistlewood migrated to the western end of the Colony of Jamaica where he became a plantation overseer, plantation owner and slaver. His lengthy ...
was born in Tupholme. The site held a
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in 1970 and 1971,"Bardney Village History"
''lincolnshire.gov.uk''; retrieved 28 April 2011
and in 1972 a Rock Festival with Rod Stewart and the
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''. Retrieved 28 April 2011 {{authority control Villages in Lincolnshire East Lindsey District