Ham

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Ham is, ecclesiastically, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sandwich.  The church is named for St. Augustine with registers commencing 1552.

Ham is a parish in Eastry district, Kent; 1 mile east of Eastry, and 2 miles south-by-west of Sandwich rail station.  Post town, Eastry, under Sandwich.  Acres, 320.  Rated property in 1859, £787.  Population in 1861, 47.  Houses, 9.  The property is divided among a few.  Updown House is a chief residence.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £181 with no habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Lord Chancellor.  The church is old but good.¹

¹John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
• Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]

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• Visitation, 1612