Place:Ham, Wiltshire, England

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Ham is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The parish borders the county of Berkshire, and the village lies about 3 1⁄4 miles (5.2 km) south of the Berkshire town of Hungerford. At the UK census of 2011 it had a population of 161.

Ham is adjacent to the parish of Buttermere on the southeast and to Shalbourne on the west.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Ham, Wiltshire.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"HAM, a parish in the [registration] district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Berks, 4 miles S by W of Hungerford [railway] station. Post town: Shalbourne, under Hungerford. Acres: 1,605. Real property, with Henley: £?,929. Population: 249. Houses: 56. Part of the land is downs, disposed in sheepwalk. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £457. Patron: the Bishop of Winchester. The church has a tower."

Henley is considered to be in Buttermere parish.

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 11, pp151-158 - Parish: Ham. British History Online. University of London.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.