High Ham, Somerset

Description
Ham or High Ham, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 3 1/2 miles N of Langport station on the G.W.R., and has a post office, of the name of High Ham, under Langport; money order and telegraph office, Langport. The parish includes also the chapelry of Low Ham or Nether Ham, part of the tithing of Beer, the hamlet of Henley, the Langport Workhouse, and parts of the hamlets of Wagg and Paradise. Acreage, 5017; population, 989. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £410 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The parish church is Perpendicular English, and consists of nave, transept, and chancel, with porch and tower. It was restored in 1870. There are three chapels in the parish- at High Ham, Low Ham (also a church), and Henley.