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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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hampden 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
  2. 02
    Whiteleaf 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
  3. 03
    Grangelands 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
  4. 04
    Holy 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
  5. 05
    Windsor 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 Hampden
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Great and Little Hampden
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great and Little Hampden
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    119 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    427 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    517 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    553 km

If you know how people move in Great and Little Hampden – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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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  • Prestwoodvillage in Buckinghamshire, England3.5 km
  • Speenvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Walter's Ashhamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Cadsdenhamlet in South Buckinghamshire, England3.7 km