Standon Green End
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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:
Puckeridge
Puckeridge is a village in East Hertfordshire, England.The earliest settlers in the area were the Belgae, who arrived around 180 BC. A Roman town existed just to the north of the existing village and the village is at the cross roads of two major Roman roads, Ermine Street and Stane Street...
in Hertfordshire.
Standon Green End is most notable for being at the final landing point of Vincenzo Lunardi's
Vincenzo Lunardi
Vicenzo Lunardi was born in Lucca, Italy. His family were of minor Neapolitan nobility, and his father had married late in life. Vicenzo was one of three children...
historic first hot air balloon
Hot air balloon
The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...
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 LuccaLuccaLucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
in TuscanyTuscanyTuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
, the first aerial
traveller in Britain mounting from the artillery ground in LondonMoorfieldsIn London, the Moorfields were one of the last pieces of open land in the City of London, near the Moorgate. The fields were divided into three areas, the Moorfields proper, just north of Bethlem Hospital, and inside the City boundaries, and Middle and Upper Moorfields to the north.After the Great...
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