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.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Ham All Saints | |
Hundred | Elstub and Everley | |
Poor Law union | Hungerford |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1604-1917 | 1756-1833 | 1605-1866 | 1605-1954 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a small edifice of stone, in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch, and a tower with pinnacles, containing 4 bells; there are sittings for 200 persons.
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: