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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.
Wooburn Green is a village situated four miles south east of the town of High Wycombe. It neighbours Beaconsfield , Loudwater , Flackwell Heath , Wooburn Common and Bourne End . It is close to the M40 motorway , meaning London and Birmingham are easily accessible by road.
HomeBase was a home improvement warehouse chain in the Western United States based in Irvine, California. History. Robert J. McNulty and George Handgis founded the ...
Troubled DIY and garden chain Homebase was waiting on around £5 million of tax rebates before collapsing into administration last week. It comes as the stricken firm has set a deadline of the end ...
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.
Wycombe Marsh is an area of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It lies on the River Wye and the A40 road, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-east of High Wycombe town centre, and approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of Loudwater. Wycombe Marsh is in the Ryemead ward of High Wycombe, which had a population of 7,188 at the 2011 ...
Booker is a hamlet within the parish of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, which has absorbed into the expanding suburbs of High Wycombe. There are several housing areas in Booker, mainly modern estates. At the 2011 Census the hamlet was included in the High Wycombe Ward of Booker and Cressex.
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 ...