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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "GREAT HAMPDEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABINGDON	Berkshire	ABINGDON , a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, and a district in Berks. The town comprises parts of the two parishes	Imperial
  AYLESBURY, or Ailesbury	Buckinghamshire	Great Missenden, in the district of Amersham; and the parishes of Bled low-with-Ridge, Ellesborough, Great Hampden, Little Hampden	Imperial
  BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, or Bucks	Buckinghamshire	Great Marlow, and High Wycombe. The market-towns are Amersham, Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, Chesham, Colnbrook, Fenny-Stratford, Great Marlow, High Wycombe, Ivinghoe, Olney, Princes-Risborough, Slough, Stony Stratford, and Winslow. The chief seats are Stowe, Bulstrode, Wotton, Hampden	Imperial
  FARINGDON	Berkshire	Hampden; was garrisoned for Charles I. during the civil war, and put under the command of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon; sustained two attacks by the parliamentarians, one of them headed by Cromwell in person; and was one of the last places to surrender. Faringdon hill commands a brilliant view of the White-Horse vale, and of parts of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Wilts; is crowned by a grove of Scotch pines, which serves as a landmark for a great	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER	Gloucestershire	GLOUCESTER , -popularly Gloster-a city and a district in Gloucestershire. The city stands on the river Severn, and on Ermine	Imperial
  GRAMPOUND	Cornwall	great bridge, " from a bridge built at it over the Fal; acquired the right of a market from John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Edward III.; was made a borough, after the Earl's death, by Edward III.; sent two members to parliament from the time of Edward VI. till 1824, when it was disfranchised for corrupt practices; had, for one of its parliamentary representatives, in 1620, John Hampden	Imperial
  Hampden, Great	Buckinghamshire	Hampden, Great , par., mid. Bucks, 4 miles SW. of Wendover, 1763 ac., pop. 255. Hampden House (the residence of John	Bartholomew
  HAMPDEN (Great)	Buckinghamshire	HAMPDEN (Great) , a parish in Wycombe district, Bucks; upon the Chiltern hills, 3 miles ESE of PrincesRisborough r. station, and 4 S by W of Wendover	Imperial
  Hampden Row	Buckinghamshire	Hampden Row , hamlet, Great and Little Hampden pars., Bucks, 4 miles NW. of Great Missenden; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LONDON	London London	Hampden; Bishop Hare; R. Harley, Earl of Oxford; Sir J. Hawkins; S. Hearne, the traveller; Archbishop Heath; W. Heberden; J. Henderson, the actor; Philip Henry, Westminster; R. Herrick; J. Heywood, the poet; Highmore, the painter; A Hill; Bishop Hinchcliffe; B. Hoadley, the physician; Hogarth, Bartholomew-close, Smithfield; Holcroft; T. Hollis, the antiquary; T. Holloway, the engraver; T. Hood, Poultry; T. Hook, Bloomsbury; J. Hoole. Moorfields; J. Hoppner; Bishop Horsley; J. Howard, Enfield; Abbot Ingulphus; Jane of the Tower, daughter of Edward II.; S. Jenyns, Bloomsbury; Inigo Jones, in or near Cloth-fair, Smithfield; Sir W. Jones; Ben Jonson, Haitshorne-lane	Imperial
  MISSENDEN (GREAT)	Buckinghamshire	GREAT) , a village and a parish in Amersham district, Bucks. The village stands in a charming valley, near the source of the rivulet Mise or Miss, 4¾ miles NW of Amersham, and 5¾ NNE of Wycombe r. station; is a considerable place; and has a post office under Amersham, and fairs on Easter Tuesday and the Monday after Old Michaelmas day. The parish comprises 5,731 acres. Real property, £7,623. Pop. in 1851,2,097; in 1861,2,250. Houses, 479. The property is much subdivided. The manor, with Missenden Abbey, belongs to Mrs. Carrington. Mobwell	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	great dis-tance. A new library from designs by G. G. Scott, and a Rector's house, were erected shortly before1868. A pretty garden is connected with the college; and, though-in a central part of the city, is open to the E, and has there a terrace commanding a view of some of the city's principal buildings. Among members of Exeter college have been Trevisa, Grocyn, Fontescue thelawyer, Baskerville the physician, Tindal the historian, Sir J. Doddridge the antiquary, Weare the first Camdenprofessor, Borlase and Lewis the topographers, Walkerthe author of the " Sufferings of the Clergy, " Kennicott, Glanville	Imperial

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