Kent
Borough of Gravesham
Higham

Higham

Higham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the borough of in , England. The village lies south-east of and just north-west of , in .
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  • Type: Village with 3,930 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Higham Upshire” and “Higham, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Higham Library and Gads Hill Place.

Library
Photo: JuliaC2006, CC BY 2.0.

Manor estate
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
Gad's Hill Place in Higham, , sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and , was the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent .

School
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
Gad's Hill School in Higham, , , is an independent school for day pupils, founded in 1924. It is set in the former , the country home of Charles Dickens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strood and Wainscott.

Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town on the River Medway in the north of the county of . Together with its neighbouring towns of and it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in Rochester, in , England. It is in the civil parish of , in the Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council. is situated 2 miles east of Higham.

Hamlet
is a hamlet southeast of Gravesend in , England. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of . It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names and appeared as a question answer for Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. is situated 2½ miles west of Higham.

Higham

Latitude
51.41511° or 51° 24′ 54″ north
Longitude
0.45973° or 0° 27′ 35″ east
Population
3,930
Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HGH
Open location code
9F32CF85+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 160151813
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2646988
Wiki­data ID
Q2336499
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Higham” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Hayem”
  • Bengali: “হাইহ্যাম”
  • Bulgarian: “Хаям”
  • Cebuano: “Higham”
  • Chinese: “海厄姆”
  • Dutch: “Higham”
  • Esperanto: “Higham (Kent)”
  • Esperanto: “Higham”
  • French: “Higham”
  • Galician: “Higham, Kent”
  • Galician: “Higham”
  • Georgian: “ჰაიემი”
  • German: “Higham”
  • Gujarati: “હાઇઘમ”
  • Irish: “Higham”
  • Italian: “Higham”
  • Japanese: “ハイアム”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಮ್”
  • Korean: “히그햄”
  • Ladin: “Higham”
  • Limburgan: “Higham”
  • Lithuanian: “Haijem”
  • Persian: “هایم کنت”
  • Polish: “Higham”
  • Portuguese: “Higham”
  • Russian: “Хайэм”
  • Russian: “Хигхэм”
  • Spanish: “Higham”
  • Swedish: “Higham, Kent”
  • Swedish: “Higham”
  • Tamil: “ஹிக்ஹாம்”
  • Telugu: “హైమ్”
  • Turkish: “Higham, Kent”
  • Urdu: “ہیگھام”
  • Welsh: “Higham, Caint”
  • Welsh: “Higham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Higham”. Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.