EDIT: We (more like you) have found 8 in Cymru! I knew asking you lot was the right thing, been driving me crazy trying to work them out. (Still shamed I forgot Wrexham!)
OG comment: Saw this on another sub, the map suggests there are 7 places in Cymru that have “ham” in the name, I genuinely can’t think of one. Can anyone else?
Wrexham?
Depends if you’re counting Occupied East Wales/Greater Cymru or not. If so: Birmingham, Cobham, Hamburg…
There’s a little village called Wyesham on the other side of the Wye to Monmouth.
I’ve zoomed into the Bridgend area on Google Maps where one of the red dots are, and I genuinely can’t find the one they used. I suspect it’s more akin to the top comment of the thread you linked, being Thames Embankment, than it is something like Birmingham – i.e. where the ‘ham’ appears in an unexpected place in the name, and as such my eyes just aren’t finding it.
EDIT: Wyndham is the dot above the one I’m referring to. Using the map above as a guide, I’m looking in areas around Bridgend/Pencoed/Cowbridge for that more southernly dot.
Markham, near Blackwood
Llanhamlach, near Brecon
Wyndham, near Ogmore Vale.
The sHAMbles
Plymouth has a “Ham” and a “Ham woods”
There’s a Wyndham near Bridgend, I think Wreham is the only big place, the rest will be villages.
Llanhamlach?
There’s a small village in Ogmore Vale, north of Bridgend called **Wyndham**.
When this was posted on CasualUk, these were some of the suggestions:
Bersham
Wrexham
Forge Hamner
Llanhamlach
Wyesham
Chippenham Common
Markham
Wyndham
Hamberystwyth
Markham nr Blackwood
BethleHam x pretty famous if you meddwl about it.
Not sure I’d trust that map too much. Seems like some of the dots in south wales are near Bridgend, Llandow, Treharris/Aberfan/Nelson area, Thornhill and somewhere around Gilwern/Abergavenny
Sealyham
Chatham, Lenham.
Durham
Cwm Hamon
I live in a down in County Durham that was apparently a settlement founded during the Anglo-Saxon times & it has don on the end. Apparently don in Anglo-Saxon is Hill?
Hanham (S.Glos) on the River Avon (adjacent is Conham, but it’s part of Bristol)
Oh… Burnham-On-Sea on the B’tol Channel nr Highbridge off M5
Pork Talbot
The mountain “Cnicht” in the Moelwyns is Anglo-Saxon and developed into the word Kinght
Egham
The one in NW Monmouthshire is Cheltenham, but it’s known as Clydach North now. The only person I know who called it that was my grandad’s uncle but he was born in the 1890s. And even then it’s a name imported in the industrial revolution by English migrants, not really an Anglo Saxon settlement
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EDIT: We (more like you) have found 8 in Cymru! I knew asking you lot was the right thing, been driving me crazy trying to work them out. (Still shamed I forgot Wrexham!)
1. Wrexham
2. Bersham
3. Wyesham
4. Markham
5. Llanhamlach
6. Wyndham
7. Sealyham
8. Great Hamston
OG comment: Saw this on another sub, the map suggests there are 7 places in Cymru that have “ham” in the name, I genuinely can’t think of one. Can anyone else?
Wrexham?
Depends if you’re counting Occupied East Wales/Greater Cymru or not. If so: Birmingham, Cobham, Hamburg…
There’s a little village called Wyesham on the other side of the Wye to Monmouth.
I’ve zoomed into the Bridgend area on Google Maps where one of the red dots are, and I genuinely can’t find the one they used. I suspect it’s more akin to the top comment of the thread you linked, being Thames Embankment, than it is something like Birmingham – i.e. where the ‘ham’ appears in an unexpected place in the name, and as such my eyes just aren’t finding it.
EDIT: Wyndham is the dot above the one I’m referring to. Using the map above as a guide, I’m looking in areas around Bridgend/Pencoed/Cowbridge for that more southernly dot.
Markham, near Blackwood
Llanhamlach, near Brecon
Wyndham, near Ogmore Vale.
The sHAMbles
Plymouth has a “Ham” and a “Ham woods”
There’s a Wyndham near Bridgend, I think Wreham is the only big place, the rest will be villages.
Llanhamlach?
There’s a small village in Ogmore Vale, north of Bridgend called **Wyndham**.
When this was posted on CasualUk, these were some of the suggestions:
Bersham
Wrexham
Forge Hamner
Llanhamlach
Wyesham
Chippenham Common
Markham
Wyndham
Hamberystwyth
Markham nr Blackwood
BethleHam x pretty famous if you meddwl about it.
Not sure I’d trust that map too much. Seems like some of the dots in south wales are near Bridgend, Llandow, Treharris/Aberfan/Nelson area, Thornhill and somewhere around Gilwern/Abergavenny
Sealyham
Chatham, Lenham.
Durham
Cwm Hamon
I live in a down in County Durham that was apparently a settlement founded during the Anglo-Saxon times & it has don on the end. Apparently don in Anglo-Saxon is Hill?
https://placenames.rtwilson.com/
This placename mapper might help!
Faversham
Chilham
Chartham
Hanham (S.Glos) on the River Avon (adjacent is Conham, but it’s part of Bristol)
Oh… Burnham-On-Sea on the B’tol Channel nr Highbridge off M5
Pork Talbot
The mountain “Cnicht” in the Moelwyns is Anglo-Saxon and developed into the word Kinght
Egham
The one in NW Monmouthshire is Cheltenham, but it’s known as Clydach North now. The only person I know who called it that was my grandad’s uncle but he was born in the 1890s. And even then it’s a name imported in the industrial revolution by English migrants, not really an Anglo Saxon settlement
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