Ham Common is an area of common land in Ham, in the modern borough of Richmond (London, England).

In London Labour and the London Poor edition

Phase 1

The Crippled Street-seller of Nutmeg-graters. (Volume 1): "After leaving my aunt’s, I went down to Ham Common, where my father-in-law lives, and there his daughter’s husband sent for a policeman to drive me away from the place. I told the husband I had no money nor food; but he advised me to go begging, and said I shouldn’t have a penny of them."





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