Great Missenden
Great Missenden is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. Its environs include the separate, nearby settlements of Prestwood, South Heath and Ballinger.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Peter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 7,230 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre and Angling Spring Wood.
Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
Museum
Photo: David Hillas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre is a museum in the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England. Children's and short story writer Roald Dahl lived in the village in Gipsy House for 36 years until his death in 1990.
Angling Spring Wood
Deciduous forest
Angling Spring Wood is in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England with an area of 16.37 hectares. It is owned by Chiltern District Council. The woodland is located close to Gipsy House, the former residence of Roald Dahl.
Great Missenden railway station
Railway station
Great Missenden railway station serves the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England and the neighbouring villages of Prestwood, Little Hampden and Little Missenden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Lee and Prestwood.
The Lee
Village
Photo: UKgeofan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lee is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about 2 miles north east of Great Missenden and 3 miles south east of Wendover.
Prestwood
Village
Photo: Victor Greenstreet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prestwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about half a mile west of its post town, Great Missenden.
Little Kingshill
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Kingshill is a small Chilterns village in the parish of Little Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England, with the closest amenities being in its post town of Great Missenden.
Great Missenden
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7047° or 51° 42′ 17″ northLongitude
-0.7087° or 0° 42′ 31″ westPopulation
7,230Elevation
433 feet (132 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GRMOpen location code
9C3XP73R+VGOpenStreetMap ID
node 21137989OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Great Missenden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غريت ميسندن”
- Armenian: “Գրյիթ Միսենդեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Qreyt-Missenden”
- Basque: “Great Missenden”
- Bengali: “গ্রেট মিসেন্ডেন”
- Catalan: “Great Missenden”
- Cebuano: “Great Missenden”
- Chinese: “Great Missenden”
- Chinese: “大米森登”
- Dutch: “Great Missenden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جريت ميسندن”
- Esperanto: “Great Missenden”
- French: “Great Missenden”
- German: “Great Missenden”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેટ મિસેનડેન”
- Indonesian: “Great Missenden”
- Irish: “Great Missenden”
- Italian: “Great Missenden”
- Japanese: “グレート・ミッセンデン”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಮಿಸ್ಡೆನ್ದೆನ್”
- Korean: “그레이트 미센덴”
- Ladin: “Great Missenden”
- Latin: “Magna Missenden”
- Latin: “Magna Myssenden”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Misendenas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Great Missenden”
- Persian: “گریت میسندن”
- Polish: “Great Missenden”
- Portuguese: “Great Missenden”
- Russian: “Грейт-Миссенден”
- Slovenian: “Great Missenden”
- Spanish: “Great Missenden”
- Swedish: “Great Missenden”
- Tamil: “கிரேட் மிஸ்சென்டென்”
- Telugu: “గ్రేట్ మిస్సేన్డెన్”
- Ukrainian: “Грейт-Міссенден, Бакингемшир”
- Ukrainian: “Грейт-Міссенден”
- Urdu: “گریٹ مسیندین”
- Welsh: “Great Missenden”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Great Missenden”. Photo: Peter, CC BY-SA 2.0.