Standon Green End

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude=51.86104
longitude= 0.02208
official_name= Standon Green End
population=
shire_district= East Hertfordshire
shire_county = Hertfordshire
region= East of England
post_town= Stevenage
dial_code= 01920
os_grid_reference= TL363199

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 ofSeptember 1784 Vincent Lunardi, of Lucca in Tuscany, the first aerialtraveller in Britain mounting from the artillery ground in London andtraversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes.In this spot revisited the Earth on this rude monument that wondrousenterprise, successfully achieved by the power of chemistry and thefortitude of man that improvements in science which the great authorof all knowledge patronising by his providence the invention ofmankind, hath graciously permitted to their benefit and hisown eternal glory

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