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Wycombe Sound is a local FM radio station that broadcasts to areas around High Wycombe in the United Kingdom. Areas of reception include High Wycombe, West Wycombe, Hazlemere and Downley. The station is run by Wycombe Community Radio which is a Community Interest Company and the day-to-day presenters and supporting staff are all volunteers.
Wycombe Swan is a theatre in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. The theatre was opened in November 1992 by Wycombe District Council and is now operated by Trafalgar Entertainment. [ 2 ] The Wycombe Swan complex consists of the main theatre, the Wycombe Swan Town Hall , and the Oak Room, all of which can be hired for events. [ 3 ]
The building was commissioned to replace the 18th century guildhall in the High Street. [2] The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the mayor, Daniel Clarke, on 5 November 1903. [ 3 ] The building was designed by Charles Bateman and Alfred Hale in the Queen Anne style and was officially opened on 12 October 1904.
Robert J. McNulty and George Handgis founded the chain as a warehouse club called the HomeClub, opening the first two stores in Norwalk and Fountain Valley, California, in 1983. It went public in 1985, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HBI .
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 ...
A Class 168 going to London calls at High Wycombe as a Class 168 sister unit on northbound service from London approaches, photo taken in February 2015. All trains are operated by Chiltern Railways. The current off-peak services are: [7] 5 trains per hour to London Marylebone, of which: 2 are non-stop to London Marylebone
The successor body, Wycombe District Council, used the municipal offices as its headquarters, substantially extending the building to the rear and renaming it the "District Council Offices". [11] [12] Following further local government reorganisation in 2020, the building became the High Wycombe local area office of Buckinghamshire Council. [13]
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 and 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 ...