Legacy
Hampden Park, the home ground of Queen's Park F.C. and the Scotland national football team, is indirectly named after John Hampden.
He now has a grammar school in High Wycombe and a primary school in Wendover, one school in Hertfordshire and one primary school in Thame named after him, as well as an older persons' mental health unit based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. There is also a statue of him in Aylesbury town centre (illustrated above) pointing to his home in Great Hampden. Aylesbury Vale District Council use an image of the statue as their logo.
Hampden, a community in Baltimore City, Maryland, is also named after him, and Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia is named after him and Algernon Sydney.
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