Bolam
Bolam is a village in the civil parish of Belsay in the county of Northumberland, England. The village is about 20 miles north-west of Newcastle upon Tyne, near Bolam West Houses.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bolam, Northumberland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belsay Castle and Aruna Ratanagiri.
Belsay Castle
Photo: Brian Norman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belsay Castle is a 14th-century medieval castle situated at Belsay, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Monument and a Grade I listed building. The main structure, a substantial three-storey rectangular pele tower with rounded turrets and battlements, was constructed about 1370, and was the home of the Middleton family. Belsay Castle is situated 2½ miles south of Bolam.
Aruna Ratanagiri
Buddhist temple
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery is a Theravada Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Northumberland, England. The community consists of monks, novices and postulants from a wide range of nationalities, usually numbering around eight Sangha members. Aruna Ratanagiri is situated 1½ miles southwest of Bolam.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Phil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 2 miles northeast of Bolam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hartburn and Belsay.
Hartburn
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hartburn is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated about 6 miles to the west of Morpeth. The population at the 2011 census was 194. The place-name 'Hartburn' is first attested in Charter Rolls of 1198, where it appears as Herteburne. Hartburn is situated 2½ miles north of Bolam.
Belsay
Village
Photo: Brian Norman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belsay is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. The village is about 5 miles from Ponteland on the A696, which links the village with Newcastle upon Tyne and Jedburgh. Belsay is situated 2½ miles south of Bolam.
Ogle
Village
Photo: Phil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ogle is a village in and former civil parish, now in the parish of Whalton, Northumberland, England, north-west of Ponteland and south-west of Morpeth. Ogle is situated 3½ miles southeast of Bolam.
Bolam
- Category: locality
- Location: Belsay, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.136° or 55° 8′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.85617° or 1° 51′ 22″ westElevation
361 feet (110 metres)Open location code
9C7W44PV+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1305676711OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Bolam” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bolam, Northumberland”
- French: “Bolam”
- Irish: “Bolam”
- Polish: “Bolam”
- Swedish: “Bolam, Northumberland”
- Welsh: “Bolam, Northumberland”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bolam”. Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.