Ham, Wiltshire
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 Manor House and church tower |
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  Ham |
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| Population | 161 (in 2011)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SU330629 |
| Civil parish | Ham |
| Unitary authority | Wiltshire |
| Ceremonial county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Marlborough |
| Postcode district | SN8 |
| Dialling code | 01488 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Devizes |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 51°21′50″N 1°31′37″W / 51.364°N 1.527°W
Ham is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the Berkshire border and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Hungerford.
Ham Hill is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Local government
Ham has an elected parish council. It falls within the area of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority which is responsible for almost all aspects of local government.
Notable people
In 1922, Lytton Strachey and Ralph Partridge, members of the Bloomsbury group, bought Ham Spray House (for £2,300), and several of that group and other writers and artists spent time there from then until Ralph died in 1960, including:
- Dora Carrington (1893–1932) (painter and decorative artist)
- Frances Partridge (1900–2004) (writer and diarist)
- Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) (writer and biographer)
Notable buildings
The Anglican Church of All Saints is Grade I listed.[2][3]
Manor House[4] and Dove's House[5] are Grade II* listed.
Amenities
Ham has a village hall and a pub, the Crown and Anchor, which also houses the Indigo Palace Indian Restaurant.
See also
- Carrington - 1995 biographical film, partly set at Ham Spray House
- List of places in Wiltshire
Sources
- Wiltshire County Council Website page on Ham, retrieved 12 November 2004
- British History Online - Victoria County History - Ham
References
- ↑ "Wiltshire Community History - Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 February 2015. Note ONS raw data (as opposed to this County Council figure) encapsulates 'too small to publish all data for reasons of confidentiality of living people' Buttermere, Wiltshire in the parish data being here identical to output area E00162591 so more demographic statistics will become available in a few decades from 2011.
- ↑ "List entry - Church of All Saints, Ham". English Heritage. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "Wiltshire Community History - Church of All Saints, Ham". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "List entry - Manor House, Ham". English Heritage. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "List entry - Dove's House, Ham". English Heritage. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
External links
Media related to Ham, Wiltshire at Wikimedia Commons