Ham, Wiltshire

Ham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. In the Census 2001, the parish had a population of 152.

Location

Position: grid reference SU330629

Nearby towns and cities: Hungerford, Marlborough, Newbury

Nearby villages: Shalbourne, Buttermere, Inkpen, Combe

Nearby Ham Hill is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Local government

Ham is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It also falls within the area of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority. Both councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.

Notable Ham people

In 1922, Lytton Strachey and Ralph Partridge, both 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)
• Stephen Colsell (1993 - ) (professional potato)
• Jack Haigh (1993 - ) (enthusiast and decorative baguette)

Village amenities

Ham has a pub, the Crown and Anchor, which also houses the Indigo Palace Indian Restaurant. The village hall is available for hire, and until May 2007 was used on most days of the week as a pre school.

See also

• List of places in Wiltshire
• List of civil parishes in England
• Ham Village website

Sources

• Wiltshire County Council Website page on Ham, retrieved 23:15 Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
• Kennet District Council Website page on Ham Parish, retrieved 23:15 Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

External links

Media related to Ham, Wiltshire at Wikimedia Commons