Bolam, a township and a chapelry in Gainford parish, Durham, 5 1/2 miles S of Bishop Auckland, and 9 from Darlington. It has a post and money order office under Heigh-ington (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Gainford. Acreage, 1013 ; population of the township, 134; of the chapelry, 169. The latter was constituted in 1867. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; net value, £129, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor.
