Barham and Woolley

Barham and Woolley is a comune ( civil parish ) in the East of England, about 20 km south of the city of Peterborough. It is one of the historic county of Huntingdonshire, which was incorporated in 1974 in the course of administrative reform of the county of Cambridgeshire. The municipality covers an area of 7.64 km ² and in 2006 was one of only 60 inhabitants.

It consists of the two hamlets Barham and Woolley, which were merged in 1935 to a first church ( ecclesiastical parish ); In 1965 she was converted into a civilian community

The village of Barham is on a hill in a hilly landscape with fertile loamy soil. It was witnessed first documented as Bercheham in the 9th century. It was always the good to Spaldwick which came into the possession of the Abbey of Ely 991. The village church probably dates from the 12th century, its present Gothic form was given to the remodeling of the sanctuary around 1300 new, the pointed arch windows date from the 14th century. The oldest ruins of the Church of Woolley probably date around 1300; it was abandoned in the 1960s and partly demolished and is preserved only as a ruin.