Hambledon village was a base for USA soldiers during the buildup to D-Day in 1944 and was used in filming of HBOs series Band of Brothers. A civil parish within Wycombe district in the south of Buckinghamshire, England, the village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means crooked or irregularly-shaped hill. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hanbledene, though previously in 1015 it was known as Hamelan dene.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:58:44 +0000
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