Brétigny is a French village near Chartres, Eure-et-Loir department, notable for the 1360 Treaty of Brétigny ending the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham.

The names of these ships were all chosen from villages ending in -ham.

The 93 ships of the Ham class had names chosen from villages ending in -ham.

A dead-end public footpath runs from the village of Upper Tysoe about a mile away, ending at a tall locked gate a few yards short of the estate church, where the walker is instructed to return the way they came.