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Local Information for High Wycombe

High Wycombe is mostly an unparished area in the Wycombe district. Part of the urban area constitues a civil parish of Chepping Wycombe, which had a population of 14,455 according to the 2001 census.

Wycombe appears in the Domesday Book, once featured a Roman Villa (2 A.D), was the site of a minor English Civil War battle featuring John Hampden, and the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

It is a hilly town situated at the southernmost foothills of the Chilterns. The town is right on the edge of the South Bucks countryside. The town is situated on the A40 trunk route and the M40 motorway

Wycombe also houses a large Asian community from various parts of the sub-continent, and a West Indian community almost exclusively from Saint Vincent.pop (1991) 71,700.

The town has a central bus station and also a railway station on Chiltern Line between London Marylebone and Birmingham Snow Hill.

There is a modern town centre, revamped at the beginnin...More