Standon Green End

Standon Green End
Standon Green End Standon Green End shown within Hertfordshire
OS grid reference	TL363199
District	East Hertfordshire
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stevenage
Dialling code	01920
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places UK England Hertfordshire

Coordinates: 51°51′40″N 0°01′11″W / 51.86104°N 0.019697°W / 51.86104; -0.019697

Standon Green End is a hamlet situated just off the A10 road between Ware and Puckeridge in Hertfordshire.

Standon Green End is most notable for being at the final landing point of Vincenzo Lunardi's historic first hot air balloon flight in 1784.

There is a boulder near to the settlement, with a plaque attached, the text reading:

Let posterity know and knowing be astonished that on the 15th day of
September 1784 Vincent Lunardi, of Lucca in Tuscany, the first aerial traveller in Britain mounting from the artillery ground in London and traversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes. In this spot revisited the Earth on this rude monument that wondrous enterprise, successfully achieved by the power of chemistry and the fortitude of man that improvements in science which the great author of all knowledge patronising by his providence the invention of mankind, hath graciously permitted to their benefit and his
own eternal glory

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