Ham, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Ham, a parish in Wiltshire, adjacent to Berks, 4 miles S by W of Hungerford station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Hungerford; money order office, Shalboum; telegraph office, Hungerford. Acreage, 1605; population, 241. Part of the land is downs, disposed in sheepwalk. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £327 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church has a tower.

Administration

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

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

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1530.

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Ham:

Churches

Church of England

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 Ham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ham (All Saints))

Maps

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

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle