John Hampden Weathervane - Dunsmore, Bucks
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Norfolk12
N 51° 44.100 W 000° 45.006
30U E 655357 N 5733960
A weathervane in the outline of the Statue of John Hampden in
Aylesbury, Market Square.
Waymark Code: WM7VW8
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/09/2009
Views: 3
This is on the roof of a bungalow in Dunsmore.
History of John HAMPDEN:
John Hampden (c. 1595 – 1643) was an English politician, the eldest son of William Hampden, of Hampden House, Great Hampden in Buckinghamshire, a descendant of a very ancient family of that county, said to have been established there before the Norman conquest, and of Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, and aunt of Oliver Cromwell.
The towns of Hampden, Maryland, Hamden, Connecticut and Hampden, Maine, as well as the county of Hampden, Massachusetts are named in his honour. Also, Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia is named in his honour and that of Algernon Sydney, another English patriot.
details from wikipedia.
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