Bolam is a small village located in
County Durham
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, England. The parish population (including
Hilton and Morton Tinmouth) at the
2011 census was 209, in 2021 the parish of Bolam alone had 84. It is situated a few miles to the north-west of
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. It lies on the River Skerne, west of Middlesbrough and south of Durham. Darlington had a population of 107,800 at the 2021 Census, making it a "large town" ...
.
In 2009
Npower Renewables identified an area of land to the north-west of Bolam as a possible site for the location of seven
wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...
s, each up to 125 metres tall.
Teesdale Mercury 27 January 2009
Etymology
The name ''Bolam'' was first recorded as ''Bolum'' in c. 1155. It may derive from Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
''bol'' ("high swell of land") + ''ham'' ("homstead").Old Norse
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...
''bolr'' ("tree-trunk, log, plank").
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Villages in County Durham
Civil parishes in County Durham
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