PRN 64363 The settlement of Parhamdam is depicted on the Ordnance Survey First Edition map of 1824.{1} The settlements of North and South Rauceby lie on a small stream, the Boon Beck. And on this stream lay a third settlement, Parhamdam. What the relationship to the two Raucebys is difficult to ascertain. There seems to be no reference to the settlement before 1612, but it then occurs repeatedly until 1851 by which time it had vanished in all but name. It does not appear by name in Domesday Book, although the estate may have existed. For the site of Parhamdam, on the Boon Beck, and the Anglo-Saxon form of the name both suggests that it may have represented an early stage in the settlement of this part of Lincolnshire, much like Holdingham, Leasingham and Quarrington which border on to it. It is possible that the now vanished Parhamdam was the first settlement in the parish of Rauceby and that the two villages came later. Parhamdam vanished, pulled down to make way for a Hall and its grounds in 1841 - a late example of the creation of a stately home with its estate village outside the walls of the park which surrounded it.{2}