Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAM-STREET

HAM-STREET, a village in Orlestone parish, Kent adjacent to the Ashford and Hastings railway, and near the Royal Military canal, 6½ miles S by W of Ashford. It has a station on the railway, a post office † under Ashford, and a fair on the first Monday of Sept.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Orlestone AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Ham Street

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