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High Wycombe

High Wycombe is a large and historic town between hills in the county of in . Furniture making played an extensive role in the town's industrial heritage. The market in High Street dates back to the Middle Ages.
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  • Type: Town with 92,000 residents
  • Description: town in Buckinghamshire, England
  • Also known as: “Chepping”, “Chepping Wycombe”, “Chipping”, “Chipping Wycombe”, “High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire”, “Much Wiccomb”, “Much Wycombe”, “Much-Wiccomb”, “Much-Wycombe”, “Wiccomb”, and “Wycombe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include High Wycombe railway station and Wycombe Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Peter Jemmett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station in the market town of High Wycombe in , England. The station is on the Chiltern Main Line between Beaconsfield and stations. It is served by Chiltern Railways.

Museum
Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a free local museum located in the town of High Wycombe, , . It is run by Wycombe Heritage and Arts Trust, as of 1 December 2016. It was previously run by Wycombe District Council.

Theater building
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a theatre in High Wycombe, , . The theatre was opened in November 1992 by Wycombe District Council and is now operated by Trafalgar Entertainment.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downley and Hughenden Valley.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England, which was included in Wycombe district before its abolition. It is high in the , overlooking the town of High Wycombe, although today it is almost indistinguishable from the urban spread of the latter town.

Village
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is an extensive village and civil parish in , England, just to the north of High Wycombe. The civil parish is still named Hughenden as of 2024. is situated 2 miles north of High Wycombe.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of on the outskirts of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. With an elevation of about 150 metres, in the . It has a population of around 6000. is situated 2½ miles southeast of High Wycombe.

High Wycombe

Latitude
51.6317° or 51° 37′ 54″ north
Longitude
-0.756° or 0° 45′ 22″ west
Population
92,000
Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)
IATA airport code
HYC
United Nations Location Code
GB HWY
Open location code
9C3XJ6JV+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21118787
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646914
Wiki­data ID
Q64116
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“High Wycombe” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هاي ويكومب”
  • Armenian: “Հայ Ուիքոմ”
  • Asturian: “High Wycombe”
  • Basque: “High Wycombe”
  • Belarusian: “Хай-Уікам”
  • Bulgarian: “Хай Уикъмб”
  • Catalan: “High Wycombe”
  • Cebuano: “High Wycombe”
  • Chinese: “海威科姆”
  • Chinese: “海韋甘比”
  • Chinese: “高威科姆”
  • Czech: “High Wycombe”
  • Czech: “Wycombe”
  • Danish: “Chipping Wycombe”
  • Danish: “High Wycombe”
  • Dutch: “High Wycombe”
  • Esperanto: “High Wycombe”
  • French: “High Wycombe”
  • Georgian: “ჰაი-უიკომი”
  • German: “High Wycombe”
  • Greek: “Χάι Ουίκαμ”
  • Hebrew: “היי וייקומב”
  • Hungarian: “High Wycombe”
  • Icelandic: “High Wycombe”
  • Indonesian: “High Wycombe”
  • Irish: “High Wycombe”
  • Italian: “High Wycombe”
  • Japanese: “ハイ・ウィカム”
  • Japanese: “ハイ・ウィクム”
  • Japanese: “ハイウィクム”
  • Japanese: “ハイウィコム”
  • Korean: “하이위컴”
  • Ladin: “High Wycombe”
  • Latin: “Magna Wycombe”
  • Latvian: “Haivikoma”
  • Luxembourgish: “High Wycombe”
  • Macedonian: “Хај Викам”
  • Northern Frisian: “High Wycombe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “High Wycombe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “High Wycombe”
  • Norwegian: “High Wycombe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “High Wycombe”
  • Persian: “های وایکام”
  • Persian: “های ویکام”
  • Polish: “High Wycombe”
  • Portuguese: “High Wycombe”
  • Romanian: “High Wycombe”
  • Russian: “Хай-Уиком”
  • Scots: “High Wycombe”
  • Scots: “Wycombe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “High Wycombe”
  • Serbian: “High Wycombe”
  • Serbian: “Хај Виком”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “High Wycombe”
  • Slovak: “High Wycombe”
  • Slovenian: “High Wycombe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “های ویکام”
  • Spanish: “High Wycombe”
  • Swedish: “High Wycombe”
  • Swedish: “Wycombe”
  • Tatar: “Һай-Виком”
  • Thai: “ไฮวิคัมบ์”
  • Turkish: “High Wycombe”
  • Urdu: “ہائی ویکام”
  • Venetian: “High Wycombe”
  • Volapük: “High Wycombe”
  • Welsh: “High Wycombe”
  • Yue Chinese: “海韋甘比”

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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 “High Wycombe”. Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.