Barholm

Grey stone cottages and farm buildings line the winding road through Barholm, a quiet backwater off the A15 eight miles south west of Bourne, that the noisy 20th century seems to have passed by.

Time has been kind to its church and even during the Civil War, money was found to give it a new tower and a quaint inscription records the event:

"Was ever such a thing
Since the Creation?
A new steeple built
In the time of vexation."

The houses are all worth a close inspection and down one side lane I spotted a delightful stone cottage with its walls covered in the deep red of Virginia creeper.

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