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High Ham, Somerset

Historical Description

Ham or High Ham, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 3½ miles N of Langport station on the G.W.R., and has a post office, of the name of High Ham, under Langport; money order and telegraph office, Langport. The parish includes also the chapelry of Low Ham or Nether Ham, part of the tithing of Beer, the hamlet of Henley, the Langport Workhouse, and parts of the hamlets of Wagg and Paradise. Acreage, 5017; population, 989. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £410 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The parish church is Perpendicular English, and consists of nave, transept, and chancel, with porch and tower. It was restored in 1870. There are three chapels in the parish- at High Ham, Low Ham (also a church), and Henley.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySomersetshire 
Ecclesiastical parishHigh Ham St. Andrew 
HundredWhitley 
Poor Law unionLangport 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for High Ham from the following:


Maps

Online maps of High Ham are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictSouth Somerset
CountySomerset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtTA10
Post TownLangport

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