Great and Little Hampden is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough.

[3] The villages were first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when they were jointly called Hamdena after the owners of the local manor.

Where the cross stands is reputed to be the spot where John Hampden stood when he first refused to pay the Ship Money tax in 1636.

In the 19th century the floor below this tablet was lifted and a body exhumed which was missing its hand and had had its shoulder dislocated.

There are 13th century wall paintings of saints inside that were discovered in 1907, however they are incomplete due to a major rebuild of the chancel in 1859.