Word info

Higham

Proper noun

Meaning

A habitational surname from Old English.

Any of six villages in England:
A village in Shirland and Higham parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3959).

A village and civil parish in Gravesham district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ715715).

A village in Pendle borough, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD805365).

A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE311071).

A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM034357).

A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL744646).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

According to archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham, "the great country houses of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries were, in a social sense, the castles of their day". Source: Internet

A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. Source: Internet

Back mid-April, in a self-coined Lockdown Sessions clip on their Instagram IGTV, Higham gave a peek behind the curtain on how they generally start writing, building, and recording a song. Source: Internet

Biographer Charles Higham states that the role was ideal for the actress, requiring an aggressive energy and athleticism, and she enthusiastically involved herself with its production. Source: Internet

For more on Bernicia and Northumbria, see e.g. Higham, The Kingdom of Northumbria. Source: Internet

Berg (2004) p. 59; Higham (2004) p. 9. On opening night, she turned up late, mixed her lines, tripped over her feet, and spoke too quickly to be comprehensible. Source: Internet

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