Great and Little Hampden

Great and Little Hampden
Great Hampden Church
Great and Little Hampden is located in Buckinghamshire
Great and Little Hampden
Great and Little Hampden
Location within Buckinghamshire
Population259 [1]
300 (2011 Census)[2]
OS grid referenceSP845015
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGREAT MISSENDEN
Postcode districtHP16
Dialling code01494
PoliceThames Valley
FireBuckinghamshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Buckinghamshire
51°42′22″N 0°46′41″W / 51.7062°N 0.7780°W / 51.7062; -0.7780

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.[3]

  1. ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census". Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hampden, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 900.