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