Higham

Higham

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
*John Higham (historian)

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’.


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