Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hampden, Great

Hampden, Great, par., mid. Bucks, 4 miles SW. of Wendover, 1763 ac., pop. 255. Hampden House (the residence of John Hampden, the parliamentarian) here, is now the seat of the Earl of Buckinghamshire. Hampden's grave is within the church.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Great Hampden CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: GREAT HAMPDEN     |     HAMPDEN     |     HAMPDEN GREAT
Place: Great Hampden

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