Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LACKHAM

LACKHAM, a seat in the NW of Wilts; near the Wilts and Berks canal, 2 miles S of Chippenham. It belonged, at the Conquest, to William de Ewe; passed to the Baynards; and belongs now to G. Montague, Esq., the ornithologist.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC
Place: Lackham

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