Great and Little Hampden
Great and Little Hampden is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough.

Great and Little Hampden is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough. It incorporates the villages of Great Hampden and Little Hampden, and the hamlets of Green Hailey and Hampden Row. Great Hampden is the ancestral home of the Hobart-Hampden family, the most famous of whom was the English Civil War protagonist John Hampden.
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Worth seeing in and around Great and Little Hampden
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Hampden House
Hampden House is a country house in the village of Great Hampden, between Great Missenden and Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It is named after the Hampden family.
900 m · country house in Great and Little Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Whiteleaf Cross
Whiteleaf Cross is a cross-shaped chalk hill carving, with a triangular base, on Whiteleaf Hill in Whiteleaf near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It sits above the road to the east of the hamlet, whose name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff.
3.4 km · hill figure in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Grangelands and Pulpit Hill
Grangelands and Pulpit Hill is a 25.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cadsden in Buckinghamshire. It lies within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the planning authorities are Wycombe District Council and Buckinghamshire County Council.
3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 04Holy Trinity Church, Prestwood
Holy Trinity Church, Prestwood is the Church of England church serving the Buckinghamshire village and parish of Prestwood. The church, its lych gate and the church school, and Church Cottage at 134 Wycombe Road are listed, as well as Prestwood Park House behind the church.
3.4 km · church building in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Windsor Hill SSSI
Windsor Hill is a 61.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It lies within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it is featured in the Nature Conservation Review.
2.3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great and Little Hampden
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 34 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 34 km · London Stansted (STN), 72 km
- London → Great and Little Hampden50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Great and Little Hampden50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Great and Little Hampden115 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great and Little Hampden
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great and Little Hampden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Great and Little Hampden
Great and Little Hampden is 31 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Cadsdenhamlet in South Buckinghamshire, England3.7 km