Somersham, Cambridgeshire

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Somersham is a village in Somersham , Cambridgeshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Somersham within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Somersham in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Somersham.-- market town and par. with ry. sta., Huntingdonshire, 5½ miles NE. of St Ives, 4121 ac., pop. 1409; P.O., T.O.. Market-day, Friday. Somersham is an old town, and was in former times celebrated for its chalybeate springs. The church is Early English. There is an endowed school. The trade of the place is agricultural.

Somersham in the Domesday Book

A village in Hurstingstone hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

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