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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.
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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.
The line connects to the Great Western Main Line at Maidenhead; it uses a section of the former Wycombe Railway line to High Wycombe together with the former Great Marlow Railway. The train that runs on the branch line is known as The Marlow Donkey although the exact derivation of the term is unclear.
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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 ...
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.
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.