Upper Enham


Upper Enham, formerly known as Upper Kings Enham, is a hamlet of 11 larger rural properties, in the civil parish of Enham Alamein lying along MacCallum Road between Little London and Enham Alamein in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Wherwell. It lies north from Andover, its nearest town.
According to Cambridge University the important meeting of 16 May 1008 was held at Kings Enham. This meeting of 40 nobles including King Aethelred and Bishop Wulfstan with 350 retainers, put into draft a decree stating that England would now worship one Christian God, one King, and that all men would be subject to law. This signified the rebirth of England and it is thought that the reference to Lambs being raised here is not a reference to livestock, but to the followers of God, "The Flock".

History

1008: Eanham, i.e. Anglo-Saxon ēan-hām = "lamb" or ēan-hamm = "enclosure by a river or marsh, for lambs"
1066: Domesday Book "Etham"
1167: Enham
1379: Enham Regis
1595: Kings Eneham
1720: Enham
1759: Upper Kings Inham, Lower Kings Inham
1900: Upper Kings Enham and Lower Kings Enham were each a group of a few houses.
1919: Upper Enham, Enham
1945: Upper Enham with Lower Kings Enham or "Enham" renamed Enham Alamein