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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ham like this:
HAM, a parish in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Berks, 4 miles S by W of Hungerford r. station. Post town, Shalbourne, under Hungerford. Acres, 1, 605. Real property, with Henley, £, 929. Pop., 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.
Ham is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ham in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11779
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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