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High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe (/ ˈ w ɪ k əm / WIK-əm), [2] is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England.Lying in the valley of the River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is 29 miles (47 km) west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of Aylesbury, 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Oxford, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Reading and 8 miles (13 ...
The High Wycombe Chair Making Museum in High Wycombe, England, houses a collection of antique tools, and explains the process of how the bodgers worked in the woods through to the finished Windsor chairs. It is now run as a community interest company. [1]
View of Wycombe Museum. Wycombe Museum (aka Wycombe Local History and Chair Museum) is a free local museum located in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. [1] It is run by Wycombe Heritage and Arts Trust, as of 1 December 2016. It was previously run by Wycombe District Council. The museum is located in Castle Hill House on Priory ...
This category is a collection of articles about High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out ...
Reading School, a grammar, is the state school that gets the highest percentage (23%) into Oxbridge in 2010, behind 10 independents, and is also the oldest existing state grammar school in England; [35] above it in the region, of the independent schools, are Magdalen College School, Oxford (32%), Guildford High School (26%) and Wycombe Abbey (25%).
The villa and bath house complex at High Wycombe was constructed between 150 and 170 and was expanded during the early 4th century; it was inhabited until at least the 4th century, with the latest dateable object discovered at the site being a coin which dates from 320 to 324.
A chalk mine of supposedly ancient origin is believed to have existed above West Wycombe for centuries. [citation needed]During the late 1740s, to try to combat local poverty, Sir Francis Dashwood commissioned an ambitious project to supply chalk for a straight three mile (5 km) road between West Wycombe and High Wycombe (then on the busy London-Oxford road, now the A40).
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.