Welcome to the Market Town of Soham
Soham
is a moderate sized Market Town, being the second largest Parish in
East Cambridgeshire, Ely being 6 miles North and the largest Parish.
Soham is situated in the Staploe Hundred and 7 miles from Newmarket to
the South, so has excellent links to the A14 and to Cambridge that is
16 miles away. Soham was once a sleepy little Town of approx 5000
inhabitants with the main employment being in agriculture, to day its
population is in excess of 10,000 and growing. Soham has three
excellent Schools that serve the Community, and many local facilities.
Soham
has seen many changes over the years but seems to retain its Community
spirit, we hope through our website you will get an avid view of Soham
as it was in yesteryear and as it is today, and hopefully the website
will assist you in your Genealogy and Local History studies of our Town.
We
would welcome any comments or any items you would like to share with
us, and would be delighted if you would like to share information or
photo’s that we could add to the website, at this point we would like
to thank all the various People who have contributed to Soham Roots in
the past and hope that we continue to give you pleasure and a helping
hand in the future.
The Website will now be dedicated to all our
Ancestors who have made all of Soham’s long and varied History so
vibrant and interesting, because without these People none of us today
would be here and continuing to enjoy living in and indeed researching
this rich Towns past.
The above photograph shows the High Street looking South from the tower of Saint Andrews Church taken in May 2000.
All
Images and Text on this website are the property of Soham Roots (unless
otherwise stated) and may not be copied or reproduced in any form
without permission.
