Higham

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Higham is the name of several places in England:

• Higham, Derbyshire
• Higham, Kent
• Higham, Lancashire
• Higham, South Yorkshire
• Higham, Babergh, Suffolk
• Higham, Forest Heath, Suffolk

• Higham Ferrers is a town in Northamptonshire
• Higham Gobion is a village in Bedfordshire

People with the name Higham include:

• Edward Higham, Australian politician.
• Dick Higham, a baseball player.
• Sir Clement Higham, Knight, of Barrow Hall.
• Prof Nicholas Higham FRS, Mathematician
• Charles Higham (born 1931), biographer and poet

The history of the name Higham :

• thought to originate from Lancashire
• habitational name from any of the many places in England
• the name is from Old English heah ‘high’ + ham ‘homestead’.