Somersham
Sign in to saveSomersham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Somersham lies approximately east of Huntingdon and north of St Ives. Somersham is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Somersham in 2008.jpg
- UK place.official_name
- Somersham
- UK place.population
- 3,802
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001) 3,810 (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- Huntingdonshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Cambridgeshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North West Cambridgeshire
- UK place.post_town
- HUNTINGDON
- UK place.postcode_district
- PE28
- UK place.postcode_area
- PE
- UK place.dial_code
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Huntingdonshire
- Population
- +3538
- Image
- Somersham in 2008.jpg
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Somersham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Somersham lies approximately east of Huntingdon and north of St Ives. Somersham is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
There has been a settlement in this corner of the country for at least 2,500 years and probably much longer than that. The village may not be full of ancient buildings, but it possesses a rich heritage of recorded history. Somersham lies on the Greenwich meridian line. There is a marker on the pavement in the High Street denoting the location of the October 1884 Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line.