Ham, Wiltshire

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

1 Location
2 Local government
3 Notable Ham people
4 Village amenities
5 See also
6 Sources

[edit] Location

Position: grid reference SU330629

Nearby towns and cities: Hungerford, Marlborough, Newbury

Nearby villages: Shalbourne, Buttermere, Inkpen, Combe

[edit] Local government

Ham is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It falls within the areas of Kennet District Council and Wiltshire County Council. All three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.

[edit] Notable Ham people

In 1922, Lytton Strachey and Ralph Partridge, both members of the Bloomsbury group, bought Ham Spray House, 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)

[edit] 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 is used on most days of the week as a pre school.