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The HP postcode area, also known as the Hemel Hempstead postcode area, [2] is a group of twenty-four postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns.These cover south-west Hertfordshire (including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring) and central Buckinghamshire (including Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chesham, Great Missenden and Princes ...
Loudwater was once served by the High Wycombe to Bourne End railway line, the station being situated at the bottom of Treadaway Hill. The line and station closed in 1970, the old railway path can still be walked through Fennel Wood. Loudwater is known as the Headquarters of Dreams Beds, Costa Coffee and Fonehouse.
Historically, Chepping or Chipping Wycombe was the formal name of the ancient borough and later municipal borough of High Wycombe or Much-Wiccomb. [3] It was also the name of the ancient parish which included the borough and extended further than the borough boundary to also cover the surrounding rural area.
Location of Pulaski County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pulaski County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The constituency shares similar borders with Wycombe local government district, although it covers a slightly smaller area. The main town within the constituency, High Wycombe contains many working/middle class voters and a sizeable ethnic minority population that totals around one quarter of the town's population, with some census output areas of town home to over 50% ethnic minorities, and a ...
It is situated 3 miles (4.8 km) north of central Wycombe, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) south of the county town of Aylesbury and some 35 miles (56 km) west-northwest of London. Hughenden parish was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was called Huchedene , or Hugh's Valley in modern English.
Title page of the 1920 Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales. Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in Britain that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities.
A Civil War battle was fought in January 1862 at Mill Springs (now "Nancy") about 8 miles (13 km) west of Somerset, and a museum is at the site. A smaller battle was fought nearby at Dutton's Hill in 1863. In 1875 tracks for the Southern Railway were completed and Somerset saw a population growth and an increase in industry. [4]