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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.
Notable buildings include the Carver-Slack Farmstead (c. 1790-1820), the Coal and Lumber Yard/Feed Mill (1892-1927), the Wycombe Station (1891-1892), the Edward Kirk House (1911), the Albert S. Worthington House (1908), Cope Mansion (1899), Wycombe Hall/Cope Hall (1909), the Warner S. Thompson Mansion (1901), the Albert J. Thompson Mansion ...
The post office was named Wycombe to prevent confusion with the post office in Wingohocken Pa. The Lingohocken Fire Company, which is located on the edge of town, retains this older name. The New Hope Railroad still owns the rail line through the town, and having finished restoring the former Reading Company station building in 2011, intends to ...
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 north-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 ...
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.
Loudwater station was located at the bottom of Treadaway Hill close to the M40 bridge and served both Loudwater and Flackwell Heath. It opened in 1854 and the station became a halt in 1968 because of decreased service on the line. The station was closed and demolished in 1970. [2]
The Wycombe Rural Sanitary District was administered from Wycombe Union Workhouse, which had been built in 1843 in open countryside in the parish of Saunderton, nearly five miles north-west of High Wycombe. [1] Under the Local Government Act 1894, rural sanitary districts became rural districts from 28 December 1894. The Wycombe Rural District ...
Loudwater may refer to: Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, a village near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; Loudwater, Hertfordshire, a village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom; An alternative name for the river Bruinen, part of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium