Place:Somersham, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameSomersham
Alt namesSummershamsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.383°N 0.017°E
Located inHuntingdonshire, England
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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Somersham, in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England, is a village and civil parish near Earith north of St Ives.

There has been a settlement in this corner of the country for at least 2,500 years and probably much longer than that. The village may not be full of ancient buildings, but it possesses a rich heritage of recorded history.

Somersham lies on the Greenwich meridian line. There is a marker on the pavement in the High Street denoting the location of the October 1884 Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line.

It once had a Somersham railway station connecting it to the towns of March and St Ives, as well as a short branch to Ramsey.

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