HAM (HIGH), a parish in the hundred of WHITLEY, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N.) from Langport, containing, with the chapelry of Low Ham, 953 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £38. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a large structure with an embattled tower at the west end; the body -was erected-ih 1476, and the chancel in 1499. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Rev. Adrian Schael, in 1578, gave £120, and in 1700 the Rev. Francis Osmenton gave £30, together producing £10 a year, for the instruction of twenty children. There is also) a sum of money given by Lady Dionis Hext and Lord Stawell for apprenticing poor children.