Marholm

Marholm is a civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. For electoral purposes it forms part of Northborough ward in North West Cambridgeshire constituency.

Map of Marholm, Peterborough, UK

The chancel at the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin, Marholm was re-built by Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton Hall towards the end of the pre-Reformation period.

Peterborough Crematorium, a holder of the prestigious Green Flag Award, is located in approximately 26 acres (10.52 ha) of land in the Parish, much of it left as original ancient woodland. Located just South of Woodcroft Castle.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Marholm like this:

MARHOLM, a parish in Peterborough district, Northampton; adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 4½ miles NW by N of Peterborough r. station. Post town, Peterborough. Acres, 1,790. Real property, £1,534. Pop., 172. Houses, 33. The property belongs chiefly to the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £311. * Patron, the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam. The church is partly Norman, partly early English, partly later English; consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains monuments of the Fitzwilliams. There are alms houses with £14 a year.

According to the 2011 census there were 76 males and 75 females living in the parish.