Downley
Downley is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, which was included in Wycombe district before its abolition. It is high in the Chiltern Hills, overlooking the town of High Wycombe, although today it is almost indistinguishable from the urban spread of the latter town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 5,170 residents
- Description: village in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Downley, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Disraeli Monument and Hughenden Manor.
Disraeli Monument
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Disraeli Monument is a Grade II* listed memorial erected in 1862 to the British writer and scholar Isaac D'Israeli, designed by the architect Edward Buckton Lamb.
Hughenden Manor
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.
High Wycombe Chair Making Museum
Museum
High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe, is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is 29 miles west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, 13 miles south-southeast of Aylesbury, 23 miles southeast of Oxford, 15 miles northeast of Reading and 8 miles north of Maidenhead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include High Wycombe and West Wycombe.
High Wycombe
Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Wycombe is a large and historic town between hills in the county of Buckinghamshire in England. Furniture making played an extensive role in the town's industrial heritage. The market in High Street dates back to the Middle Ages.
West Wycombe
Village
Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Wycombe is a small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, known for its manor houses and hills. It is 3 miles west of High Wycombe.
Naphill
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Naphill is a village in the parish of Hughenden Valley, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is north-west of Hughenden, on the ridge of one of the Chiltern Hills, and is adjacent to the village of Walter's Ash.
Downley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Downley, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.64693° or 51° 38′ 49″ northLongitude
-0.7727° or 0° 46′ 22″ westPopulation
5,170Elevation
538 feet (164 metres)Open location code
9C3XJ6WG+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1130922382OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12264896Wikidata ID
Q2182993
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Downley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دونلي”
- Basque: “Downley”
- Bengali: “ডাউনলে”
- Cebuano: “Downley”
- Chinese: “Downley”
- Chinese: “唐恩雷”
- Dutch: “Downley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دونلى”
- French: “Downley”
- German: “Downley”
- Gujarati: “ડાઉનલી”
- Irish: “Downley”
- Italian: “Downley”
- Japanese: “ダウンリー”
- Kannada: “ಡೌನ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “다우니”
- Ladin: “Downley”
- Lithuanian: “Daunlis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Downley”
- Persian: “داونلی”
- Polish: “Downley”
- Portuguese: “Downley”
- Russian: “Даунли”
- Spanish: “Downley”
- Swedish: “Downley”
- Tamil: “டௌன்லி”
- Telugu: “డౌన్లి”
- Urdu: “دوونلے”
- Welsh: “Downley”
- “Downley”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jubilee Green and Downley Memorial Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Downley”. Photo: Peter O’Connor aka anemoneprojectors, CC BY-SA 2.0.