PRN 64093 Bloxholm is first documented in the Domesday Book, and was known at that time as 'Blochesham'. The name is possibly derived from 'Blocc's homestead, estate' from the Old English personal name 'Blocc' and the Old English 'ham'. The replacement of ham by the Old Norse 'holmr' first appears in Bloxholm' 1281 and is the result of weakening of the final syllable.{1} Bloxholm is found in the Wappentake of Flaxwell, and at the time of Domesday land in Bloxholme was owned by Roger of Poitou and Alfred of Lincoln. For Roger of Poitou, 'In Blochesham Turuer had nine carucates and five bovates of land assessed to the geld. There is land for as many teams and oxen. Roger of Poitou has one and a half teams there is demesne, and eighteen sokemen and two villeins having five teams, and thirteen acres of meadow'. The whole was valued at £4 in King Edward's time, subsequently at £3'. For Alfred of Lincoln, 'there are two carucates and three bovates of land assessed to the geld. There is land for as many teams and oxen. There are two sokemen there with half a team'.{2} The Lay Subsidy of 1334 lists the parish's wealth as £4.{3} When the houses of 23 villeins were destroyed by fire in the Lincolnshire village of Bloxham (no date given but 14th century implied) only five remained, and their petition argued that, although they had not lost their houses, they were in no position between them to pay the full village quota, which was 50s.{4}{5} Amorphous earthworks in the field enclosing the church, and within the present village of Bloxholm represent the remains of the Medieval village (see PRN 62785). The original site of the village as suggested by a 17th century map at Bloxholm Hall.{5}{6} Medieval cropmark crofts have been recorded and interpreted as possible settlement by the National Mapping Programme (PRN).{7} By the late 17th-early 18th century there were 8 families in the parish, decreasing to 6.{8} Bloxholm or Bloxham, a small picturesque village and parish, 5 miles north of Sleaford, contains 105 inhabitants, and 1322 acres of fertile and well-wooded land, the property and manor of the Rt.Hon.Robert Nisbet hamilton, M.P. of Bloxholm Hall.{9} In 1801 the population of the parish is listed as 81, falling to 67 in 1841, then rising to 115 in 1861, falling again to 84 in 1871 and gradually rising again to 98 in 1901.{10}