| Tupholme | |
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  Tupholme Location withinLincolnshire | |
| OS grid reference | TF144684 |
| • London | 120 mi (190 km) S |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LINCOLN |
| Postcode district | LN3 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Tupholme is a village in theEast Lindsey district ofLincolnshire, England. It is situated 11 miles (18 km) east fromLincoln, and is the site of the ruinedTupholme Abbey on the road betweenHorncastle andBardney. The population is included in the civil parish ofBucknall.
The Abbey, founded before 1190 byGilbert andAlan de Neville, was the home ofPremonstratensian white canons, numbering around 24 in the 15th century.[1][2] The ruins chiefly consist of parts of theEarly English wall of therefectory withlancet windows, and a reader's pulpit withtrefoiled arches.[1]
The site of the abbey was granted to Sir Thomas Heneage ofHainton. Sir Thomas built a grand house, based on the monastic buildings, for his daughter Elizabeth and her husbandWilliam Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham. 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.[3]
The notorious slave-ownerThomas Thistlewood was born in Tupholme in 1721.
The site held aFolk Festival in 1970 and 1971,[4] and in 1972 a Rock Festival withRod Stewart andThe Beach Boys.[2]
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