Editing Hanham

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[[File:Hanham High Street (geograph 2535560).jpg|thumb|Hanham High Street]]
'''Hanham''' is in the [[unitary authority]] of [[South Gloucestershire]], adjacent to, but not within the City of Bristol.  It became a [[civil parish]] on 1 April 2003.

The post code area of Hanham is BS15.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1133671 |title=Bulletin of Changes to Local Authority Elections, Names and Areas in England |access-date=2005-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207194614/http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1133671 |archive-date=7 December 2005 }}<!--no longer there, and the redirect there goes nowhere 2007-09-15, notice red links on old pub as well as old inn named Blue Bowl, same place?--></ref> The population of this civil parish taken at the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] was 6,128.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124193&c=Hanham&d=16&e=62&g=6390369&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1426864456727&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|access-date= 20 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130405/https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124193&c=Hanham&d=16&e=62&g=6390369&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1426864456727&enc=1|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

==Governance==
An [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] in the same name exists. The ward stretches south from ''Hanham'' to Hanham Abbots. The total population of the ward taken from the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] was 10,311<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hanham-e05002058#sthash.zMH7gOb3.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date=20 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150431/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/hanham-e05002058#sthash.zMH7gOb3.dpbs|url-status=live}}</ref>

==History==

[[Tom Cribb]], once world champion [[bare-knuckle boxing|bare-knuckle]] [[Boxing|boxer]], was born in Hanham.<ref>''Hanham, Longwell Green and Willsbridge – Picture Past'', by David G. Elliot, page 23.</ref> [[Stephen Merchant]] was also born in Hanham.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/stephen-merchant-shoot-new-bbc-3722158|title = Stephen Merchant to shoot major new series in Bristol|date = 10 January 2020}}</ref>

Hanham is also the first place in the UK to trial [[Gordon Brown]]'s new eco-towns.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hanhamhall.co.uk/ |title=Hanham Hall<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=26 June 2008 |archive-date=9 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709050820/http://www.hanhamhall.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Built on the former [[Hanham Hall Hospital]] site,<ref>{{cite report |url=http://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/hanham-hall-historic-characterisation/ |title=Hanham Hall Historic Characterisation |publisher=English Heritage |date=21 September 2007 |access-date=9 February 2016 |archive-date=16 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216034315/http://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/hanham-hall-historic-characterisation/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the new village serves as a blueprint for Gordon Brown's proposed five eco-towns that will provide up to 100,000 zero-carbon dwellings across the country.<ref name="guardian-20071214">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/dec/14/energyefficiency.energy1 |title=Barratt contracted to build UK's first eco-village |author=Alison Benjamin |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 December 2007 |access-date=21 September 2012 |archive-date=5 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005045350/http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/dec/14/energyefficiency.energy1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[The Blue Bowl]] has been claimed to be one of the oldest public houses in the country.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Hanham-pub-oldest-country/story-11267759-detail/story.html | title=Hanham pub could be oldest in country | work=Bristol Post| date=28 December 2009 | access-date=13 November 2014 | archive-date=24 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124094848/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Hanham-pub-oldest-country/story-11267759-detail/story.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
{{Commons category|Hanham}}
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{{South Gloucestershire}}
{{Bristol}}

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[[Category:Villages in South Gloucestershire District]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Gloucestershire]]
[[Category:Areas of Bristol]]