High Ham, Somerset : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about High Ham. You may be able to find further references to High Ham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Ham, High parish Bartholomew
HAM, or HIGH HAM a village and a parish Imperial
High Ham parish and village Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with High Ham.

Place Type of entry Source
Beer tithing Bartholomew
BEER a tything Imperial
Henley hamlet Bartholomew
HENLEY a tything Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Beer 0 2
Pitney 0 3
Whitley 0 2
Aller 0 2
Huish Episcopi 0 2
Langport 2 3
Greinton 0 3
Othery 0 2
Walton 0 2
Ashcott 0 2
Compton Dundon 0 2
Middlezoy 2 2
Somerton 2 3
Long Sutton 0 3
Muchelney 1 2
Street 0 2
Burrowbridge 0 3
Drayton 0 2
Hurcott 0 2
Curry Rivel 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for High Ham. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
HAM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HAM HIGH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
HAM OR HIGH HAM John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
HIGH HAM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.