Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about High Wycombe. You may be able to find further references to High Wycombe in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chipping Wycombe (or High Wycombe, or Wycombe)	municipal borough, market town, parish, and township	Bartholomew
High Wycombe	municipal borough	Bartholomew
WYCOMBE	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Wycombe Old Borough	township	Bartholomew
Wycombe (or Southern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with High Wycombe.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Flackwell Heath	hamlet	Bartholomew
Loudwater	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
LOUDWATER	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
TYLERS-GREEN	a chapelry	Imperial
WYCOMBE (Marsh)	a chapelry	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to High Wycombe within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Cobbett	June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire	9
William Camden	Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	6
Arthur Young	1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands	3
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol	2
Charles Wesley	May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	2
Charles Wesley	1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire	1
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Desborough	0	2
Wycombe Marsh	0	2
West Wycombe	0	3
Hazlemere	0	1
Hughenden	0	3
Little Marlow	0	3
Tylers Green	0	2
Loudwater	0	2
Lane End	0	2
Bradenham	1	2
Lewknor Uphill	0	2
Ackhampstead	0	1
Penn	1	2
Fingest	0	2
Wooburn	0	3
Marlow	6	3
Penn Street	0	2
Cadmore End	0	1
Little Missenden	0	3
Prestwood	0	2