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.orgPhrases with the word
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".
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.
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.
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.
For more on Bernicia and Northumbria, see e.g. Higham, The Kingdom of Northumbria.
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.