Chalfont Common is a hamlet in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, to the north of Chalfont St Peter. A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement, too small or unimportant to be considered a village. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... The Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment that stretches in a south-west to north-east diagonal from Goring-On-Thames to Luton, but is most prominent in Buckinghamshire. ... The Chalfonts are a group of three villages in south east Buckinghamshire, England. ...
Penn died, in 1718, at his home in Ruscombe, near Twyford in Berkshire, and was buried next to his first wife in the cemetery of the Jordans Quaker meeting house at Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire in England.
One Liberty Place was the first of several buildings in the late 1980s to be built higher than Penn. The statue is referenced by the so-called Curse of Billy Penn.
A common misconception is that the smiling Quaker shown on boxes of Quaker Oats is William Penn. The Quaker Oats Company has stated that this is not true.
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