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Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire.The village is a spring line settlement [1] on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment.
The M40 motorway links London, Oxford, and Birmingham in England, a distance of approximately 89 miles (143 km).. The motorway is dual three lanes except for junction 1A to junction 3 (which is dual four lanes) a short section in-between the exit and entry slip-roads at junction 4 (which is two lanes in both directions) and also between the slip-roads at junction 9 (in the south-eastbound ...
The High Wycombe Coachway is a coachway interchange close to junction 4 of the M40 motorway to the west of High Wycombe [1] opened on 16 January 2016. [2] Prior to its establishment, some 150 coaches on the Oxford to London coach route passed High Wycombe each day without stopping because it would cause too much delay for other passengers were they to go via the town centre.
The Thame line, between Princes Risborough and Oxford, closed to passenger traffic on 7 January 1963. An oil terminal at Thame and a car factory at Morris Cowley kept the extremities of the route open for goods traffic for the time being. [1] On 4 May 1969 the former Wycombe Railway line between High Wycombe and Bourne End was closed. [1]
In 1862, the Wycombe Railway opened an extension from High Wycombe via Princes Risborough to Thame.In 1863, it opened a branch line from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury.In 1864, it opened an extension from Thame to Kennington Junction on the GWR line between Didcot and Oxford, thus finally completing its route to Oxford.
Thame / t eɪ m / is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 13 miles (21 km) east of the city of Oxford and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Aylesbury.It derives its name from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town and forms part of the county border with Buckinghamshire.
Thame railway station was a station on the Wycombe Railway serving the town of Thame in Oxfordshire.It was opened in 1862 as the terminus of an extension from High Wycombe via Princes Risborough The cost of construction of the station building was £2,201 1s 5d additional general works were £2,137 8s 8d.
The junction under construction in 1966. The first section of the M40 to open was the section between junctions 4 and 5 in 1967, [1] construction starting in 1964. The 1967 finished roundabout allowed interchange between the M40, the A404 to Marlow, the A404 into central High Wycombe and a minor residential street.