Great Hampden is a Village in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Great Hampden postcode: HP16 9RG

Retail in Great Hampden

There are great places to visit near Great Hampden including some great villages, towns, parks, lakes, shopping centres, historic buildings, country parks and airports.

Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood are some of Great Hampden best villages to visit near Great Hampden.

Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury are great places to visit near Great Hampden if you like towns.

Great Hampden has some unmissable parks nearby like Willen Lake, and Campbell Park.

Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park are some of Great Hampden best lakes to visit near Great Hampden.

The area around Great Hampden features a number of interesting shopping centres including The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

Great Hampden's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Church of St Simon and St Jude, St Peter and St Paul - Olney, Weston Underwood, Church of St James the Great - Hanslope, The Old Gaol, and Waddesdon Manor.

The area around Great Hampden's best country parks can be found at Thorney Country Park.

Wycombe Air Park is a great place to visit close to Great Hampden if you like airports.

Great Hampden History

There are some historic monuments around Great Hampden:

• The Castle, a moated site at Oaken Corner in Wendover Woods
• Site of the medieval village of Moreton
• Bowl barrow at Molin's Works, part of the Saunderton Lee round barrow cemetery
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery on Hemley Hill
• Hill figure on Whiteleaf Hill, known as the Whiteleaf Cross
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 875m long section between Leylands Farm and Shire Lane
• Dial Hill Roman barrow, 50m north west of St Nicholas's Church
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: two sections between Oaken Grove and Lanes End
• Castle Hill, a motte and bailey castle and Saxon burial 50m west of Castle Hill House
• Moated site in Chalkdell Wood, 100m north west of Frith Hill House
• The Mount
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 370m long section 330m south east of Hampden House
• Camp on Church Hill
• Desborough Castle
• Moated site immediately north west of Moat Farm
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: section extending from Redland End through Barnes's Grove to Hampden Park
• Roman villa 140m east of St Mary and St Nicholas' Church
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 580m long section between Lily Bottom Lane and Redland End
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 520m long section between Lanes End and Bottom Road
• Long barrow 200m east of parade ground, Groves Road, Halton Camp
• Moated site 90m west of Terrick House
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 176m long section south west of White House Farm
• Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill
• Motte castle known as Dane's Camp 400m south of Hampden House
• A Neolithic barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 50m east of Whiteleaf Cross
• Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill
• A bowl barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 90m north of Whiteleaf Cross
• Cross dyke on Ragpit Hill, 230m ENE of Great Kimble church
• Two bowl barrows 450m north west of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee barrow cemetery
• St John the Baptist's Hospital
• Cymbeline's Castle: a motte and bailey castle 550m south west of Ellesborough church
• Bell barrow 260m WNW of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee barrow cemetery
• Roman villa east of Lodge Hill Farm
• Bowl barrow 350m ENE of Saunderton Station
• Moated site at Apsley Manor Farm
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1500m long section from Great Widmoor Wood to Oaken Grove
• Cross dyke on Whiteleaf Hill, 165m south east of the Whiteleaf Cross
• Bowl barrow 140m WNW of Slough Glebe Farm, part of the Saunderton Lee round barrow cemetery
• Bowl barrow on Lodge Hill, 650m east of Old Callow Down Farm
• Village settlement site on Lodge Hill
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.13km long section from Grymsdyke Manor to RAF High Wycombe
• Nucleated medieval settlement east of Waldridge Manor
• Moated site and associated medieval remains 430m north of Church Farm
• Moated site and medieval settlement remains 200m south west of Manor Farm
• Motte and bailey in grounds of manor house
• Moated site at Grove Farm
• Motte and bailey castle, moated site and Roman villa immediately east of All Saint's Church
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.02km long section from west of White House Farm to Lily Bank Farm
• Two bell barrows at Lodge Hill, 400m NNE of Old Callow Down Farm
• Cross dyke 480m east of Great Kimble church
• Moated site 250m north west of Elmbrook Farm
• Small multivallate hillfort on Pulpit Hill
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 245m long section in Oaken Grove with two associated post mill mounds, 235m south east of Briary Cottages
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 660m long section to the west of Walter's Ash
• Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 350m long section extending north east from Cottage Farm
• Pillow mound on Beacon Hill, 550m south of Ellesborough church
• Bowl barrow on Beacon Hill, 500m south of Ellesborough church
• Boddington Camp: a slight univallate hillfort on the summit of Boddington Hill
• Earthworks in Park Wood
• A bowl barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 200m north of Whiteleaf Cross
• Fillington Wood medieval settlement