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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ham Street like this:
HAM-STREET, a village in Orlestone parish, Kent adjacent to the Ashford and Hastings railway, and near the Royal Military canal, 6½ miles S by W of Ashford. It has a station on the railway, a post office † under Ashford, and a fair on the first Monday of Sept.
Ham Street is now part of ASHFORD District. Click here for graphs and data of how ASHFORD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ham Street itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ham Street, in Ashford and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25100
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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