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15 Best Things to Do in High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire, England)

A town on high chalk slopes in the Chilterns, Wycombe has some of South England’s prettiest countryside in its back garden.

The National Trust owns big tracts of this land on former estates just outside town.

One, West Wycombe Park was the 18th-century residence of Sir Francis Dashwood, and the meeting place of the notorious Hellfire Club.

Also close, Hughenden Manor was tied to Benjamin Disraeli, the UK’s Prime Minister at a pivotal time in the 19th century.

High Wycombe’s prosperity in this period was fuelled by a chair-making industry that made the most of the vast beech forests growing in the Chilterns.

Even now the local football team Wycombe Wanderers is nicknamed the Chairboys.

Let’s explore the best things to do in High Wycombe :

1. Chiltern Hills

High Wycombe is on a long chalk escarpment that rises to more than 250 metres and is conserved as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

You can pick up details of walking routes, cycling trails, country pubs, snug villages and historic estates at the tourist information centre in the High Wycombe Library.

Many of the destinations on this list are in the Chilterns, and both Hughenden and West Wycombe all their lovelier for their environment of lush valleys, hedgerows and old beech woodland.

If golf is your game you can play a round in this scenery at the Wycombe Heights Golf Centre.

2. Hughenden Manor

This National Trust house was the home of Benjamin Disraeli, the two-time Prime Minister and favourite of Queen Victoria.

He acquired Hughenden in 1848 just after becoming leader of the Tory Party, and would live here for the rest of his life.

The house was originally Palladian from the 18th century, but Disraeli commissioned a whimsical Eclectic redesign by Edward Buckton Lamb.

The house brims with insights about Disraeli, and you’ll tour his library and study, his wife Mary Anne’s study and the couple’s bedroom.

There are exhibitions about Disraeli’s politics and his relationship with his Jewish heritage.

You’ll get to see a lot of personal possessions, like the black silk robe that he wore as Chancellor of the Exchequer and refused to return.

The grounds are also a joy for their mature trees and walled garden planted with 47 old apple varieties.

3. West Wycombe Park

The 18th-century nobleman Sir Francis Dashwood gained notoriety during his Grand Tour across Europe when he was thrown out of Russia for trying to seduce Tsarina Anne while impersonating Charles XII of Sweden.

When he returned he co-founded the Hellfire Club, steeped in Pagan symbolism but basically an elaborate excuse to party.

Dashwood was a celebrated aesthete who adapted the Classical and Renaissance architecture from his travels to his pleasure palace at West Wycombe Park.

Owned by the National Trust since 1943, the mansion is a medley of Georgian design, with two tiers of colonnades on the West Front resembling the Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza.

Eight rooms of the house are open to the public, while the surrounding landscaped park covers 45 acres of rambling Chiltern countryside and is scattered with Neoclassical follies.

4. Hellfire Caves

The house at West Wycombe Park has a clear line of sight to the entrance to this 400-metre set of man-made caves on West Wycombe Hill.

The caves were excavated especially as a meeting place for the Hellfire Club, made up of some prominent figures in Georgian society.

Members included the 4th Early of Sandwich (supposed inventor of the sandwich), politician John Wilkes and the painter/satirist William Hogarth.

The solemn entrance to the caves is a Gothic Revival mock ruin, while the interior is embellished details that Dashwood picked up in Syria, Turkey, Greece and Italy.

You’ll shuffle through a sequence of chambers, including Franklin’s Cave, named after the American polymath Benjamin Franklin, another noted visitor.

5. St Lawrence’s Church

You can tell from the earthworks on West Wycombe Hill that it was the site of an Iron Age hillfort.

Cresting the hill since Medieval times is St Lawrence’s Church, which served the lost village of Haveringdon in the Middle Ages.

A Grade I monument, the church was completely transformed by Francis Dashwood in the middle of the 18th century.

The result is a peculiar cocktail of Medieval and Neoclassical architecture, rich with Rococo stuccowork.

The feature that catches the eye from miles away is the big golden finial atop the tower, thought to have been inspired by the Dogana in Venice during Dashwood’s Grand Tour.

The nave, lined with Corinthian columns is based on a sketch by the antiquarian Robert Wood of Palmyra’s Temple of the Sun.

There are trompe-l’œil paintings on the ceiling and nave, while Dashwood personally designed the new mahogany choir stalls.

6. Dashwood Mausoleum

Another absorbing monument on the estate is posted high on West Wycombe Hill beside St Lawrence’s Church.

Francis Dashwood also conceived this stately sepulchral monument to his family, and from a design point of view it has no precedent in the world.

The Dashwood Mausoleum is a roofless hexagonal building made from local flint, with triumphal arches on each side, framed by Doric columns and a continuous frieze.

In the centre, in a little Ionic temple is a pedestal and urn for Dashwood’s wife, while there are wall plaques commemorating his mother and stepmother.

Many of the niches had statues and memorials that have since been removed, but there’s an urn containing the heart of the satirist and secretary to the Hellfire Club Paul Whitehead.

7. West Wycombe Village

Head down Church Lane from the entrance to the Hellfire Caves to this cosy village, almost completely owned by the National Trust.

West Wycombe Village is little more than three interconnecting streets, but features lots of preserved houses built between the 1500s and 1700s.

Everything you see here once belonged to the Dashwoods, and despite the village’s compact size its location made it an important stop on the coaching road between London and Oxford.

Amazingly there were 17 pubs in West Wycombe at that time, and the old Coaching Inn, the George & Dragon is an impressive holdover.

The Dashwoods sold off the entire village at the end of 1929 to raise money after the Wall Street Crash.

8. Wycombe Museum

The town’s free museum has an adorable location, in an 18th-century flint house among generous Victorian gardens.

Take an express trip through High Wycombe’s past with “The History of Wycombe in 10 Objects” exhibition, condensing a collection of thousands of artefacts into a few key pieces.

There’s also lots of social history, represented by old posters, trade coins, black and white photographs and a typical kitchen from the 1920s.

You’ll learn the roots of the town’s chair-making industry, check out memorabilia for the local football team Wycombe Wanderers, and peruse a collection of art, from engravings to oil paintings.

9. High Wycombe Guildhall

At the west end of High Wycombe High Street, contrasting with the modern Eden Centre, is the town’s Georgian Guildhall.

Dating to 1757, this monument has an arcade straddling the street, making a big impression as you approach from the east side.

Built in the Palladian style, the Guildhall has the coat of arms of its backer, the Earl of Shelburne in its pediment.

A handsome partner to the Guildhall is the Pepper Pot or Cornmarket, which was redesigned according to designs by the famed architect Robert Adam in 1761. The remainder of the High Street deserves a look for its sophisticated Georgian and Victorian townhouses.

10. St Michael and All Angels, Hughenden

Benjamin Disraeli was Jewish by birth but converted to Church of England aged 12 after his father had a disagreement with his synagogue.

You can track down Benjamin’s tomb at the Church of St Michael and All Angels, which is on the estate.

Originally Norman, the church was constructed at the start of the 12th century.

It was extended during Disraeli’s time, so the chancel and north chapel of the current building actually formed the body of the Medieval church.

Disraeli passed away in 1881 an was buried in the family vault on the outer west wall of the church, together with his wife who had died nine years earlier.

The tomb is fenced with low blue railings and was visited by Queen Victoria a few days after the funeral, as royal protocol had prevented her from attending a private burial.

11. The Rye and Holywell Mead

Just next to the train station, this scenic patch of public land has an interesting past.

Historically it was a shared space for the townsfolk to pasture their cattle, but also includes a parcel of the former Wycombe Abbey Estate.

The Holywell Mead meanwhile is on the site of a Roman villa and used to be cultivated for watercress.

There’s year-rounded swimming at the heated Rye Lido, which has a separate children’s pool, as well as terraces and lawns to sunbathe on in summer.

By the Dyke on the park’s southwest corner is the Boathouse Cafe, where you can also hire a rowboat on sunny days.

12. Odds Farm Park

As an antidote to country walks and historic houses, here’s an attraction just for little ones.

Odds Farm Park is an accredited “Approved Farm Park” by the Rare Breed Survival Trust.

The farm has pigs, ponies, goats, cows, sheep, chickens, donkeys, rabbits and guinea pigs.

Children can pet rabbits and feed goats by hand at the Undercover Animal Contact Barn, while there are all sorts of season activities to get up to.

These might be feeding chickens, learning about cow milking and sheep shearing, collecting chicken eggs, seeing newborn animals and watching sheep races.

The farm organises tractor rides, while there’s an enormous indoor play barn, crazy golf, go karts and an adventure maze.

13. Bradenham Estate

If you’re still in the mood for sprawling country estates, Bradenham is couched in the Chilterns under five miles from High Wycombe.

The 17th-century house is closed to the public, but the National Trust owns a big chunk of the estate, in a bucolic Chiltern landscape.

The pick of the walks sets off from the village of Bradenham, also gorgeous, trailing for 4.5 miles into undulating hills crowned with ancient beech woodland and swooping to ploughed valleys.

The chalk grassland is a key habitat for fly and bee orchids, as well as the small blue and Duke of Burgundy butterflies.

You may see a hare zipping across the fields, and deep in the forest are pillboxes from the Second World War.

14. Disraeli Monument

On a visit to Hughenden Manor, you can take a little detour to this monument on the brow of Tinker’s Hill at the south side of the estate.

Carved from Bath stone, this 15-metre column was erected for Isaac D’Israeli, Benjamin’s father.

Benjamin’s wife, Mary-Anne, hired Edward Buckton Lamb for the job.

It was intended as a gift to her husband, so the project was kept secret.

In the end the couple was so happy with the monument that Lamb was commissioned to makeover Hughenden Manor in his peculiar Eclectic style.

There’s a two-mile circular winding through hills from the visitor welcome kiosk to the monument.

Once you get there take some time to savour the view, which in Benjamin’s day extended as far as Windsor Castle.

15. Wycombe Wanderers F. C.

Nicknamed “the Chairboys” for High Wycombe’s furniture industry, a forerunner to Wycombe Wanderers was founded in 1884 by a group of young furniture workers.

For a long time the club actively resisted becoming professional, until amateur football was abolished by the English Football Association in 1974. Since turning pro the club has climbed as high as League One (third tier), where it currently plays in the 2018-19 season.

Sports fans visiting High Wycombe with children could plan an outing to Adams Park for a match.

The club is one of a select few English Football League clubs to be awarded Family Excellence status.

Added to that the 10,000-seater stadium has a picturesque setting, in a steep valley in the Chilterns.

15 Best Things to Do in High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire, England):

• Chiltern Hills
• Hughenden Manor
• West Wycombe Park
• Hellfire Caves
• St Lawrence's Church
• Dashwood Mausoleum
• West Wycombe Village
• Wycombe Museum
• High Wycombe Guildhall
• St Michael and All Angels, Hughenden
• The Rye and Holywell Mead
• Odds Farm Park
• Bradenham Estate
• Disraeli Monument
• Wycombe Wanderers F. C.

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Including its role in the Cornetto trilogy, some of its famous faces and a bizarre ritual involving the mayor

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High Wycombe has some fascinating history making it a place that is overflowing with interesting facts.

The town was once represented in Parliament by one of Queen Victoria’s most-liked Prime Ministers and High Wycombe showcased its most famous industry when she visited.

However, more recently, it has been the home of celebrities, large companies and has even starred in major films and TV shows.

Read on for our ten interesting facts about the town.

The town was represented by one of Queen Victoria’s favourite Prime Ministers

Benjamin Disraeli, who was Prime Minister briefly in 1868 and then between 1874 and 1880, represented Wycombe for the Conservatives.

However, before this he stood a number of times unsuccessfully for the Radicals - a movement keen to see parliamentary reform and lower taxes.

During his leadership of the country, he was close friends with Queen Victoria and she made the Prime Minister the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876.

The monarch was saddened when he was no longer Prime Minister after the Conservatives were beaten decisively by the Liberals in the 1880 election.

The town weighs its mayor to see whether they have been getting rich on the public pound

The town has a tradition that dates back to Medieval times of weighing its mayor to make sure that they aren’t gaining weight on the taxpayer's money.

Now it’s just a bit of fun and the town’s councillors and the MP Steve Baker all get involved too.

The mayor is weighed at the start and the end of their term and the town crier will shout "And no more" if no weight has been gained but will bellow "And some more" if a few pounds have been gained.

Hundreds of years ago if a mayor had gained weight he could be expected to be pelted with tomatoes and rotten fruit.

High Wycombe’s train station played a role in the Cornetto Trilogy

The final film in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s hilarious Cornetto Trilogy, given that name because each film features Cornetto ice-creams, has scenes filmed in High Wycombe.

The World’s End sees five friends meet up for a pub crawl that they last did twenty years ago only to find themselves being the last hope to save the planet as we know it.

When the friends first meet and Simon Pegg's character picks them up they are at High Wycombe station.

The Mighty Boosh stars met in High Wycombe

The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy group that includes Julian Barratt, Dave Brown and Noel Fielding.

The TV series, of the same name, is a surreal comic fantasy that features extensive musical performances in various styles including electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap.

While attending Bucks New University in Wycombe Fielding met Brown and then Barratt joined after Fielding saw him perform at the Wycombe Swan theatre.

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The town celebrated a visit by Queen Victoria with chairs

High Wycombe’s most famous industry is its chair manufacturing which really took off in the 19th century - it is thought that around 4,700 chairs were made every day in High Wycombe in 1875.

During a visit by Queen Victoria to the town in 1877 the council organised for chairs to be crafted into an arch over the High Street with “Long live the Queen” printed boldly on them.

The idea was for the monarch to pass under this during her trip.

The town has spawned a number of high-profile celebrities

High Wycombe has been home to a number of high-profile celebrities over the years.

US TV host and actor James Corden grew up on the outskirts of High Wycombe in Hazlemere while Leigh-Anne Pinnock, who is a member of the girl band Little Mix is from the town.

Actress Sally Phillips, who has starred in Bridget Jones and I’m Alan Partidge, attended Wycombe Abbey Girls School while actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who played the lead in Kick Ass, was born in High Wycombe.

A former girls school became a US army base in WWII

During the Second World War, from May 1942 Wycombe Abbey, a former girls school in High Wycombe, was the Headquarters of Eighth Air Force Bomber Command.

The site was codenamed ‘Pinetree’ and there was a large underground bunker and a hutted encampment to the south and east of Daws Hill, which is near the Abbey.

The Abbey was returned to the school in 1946, however, the other land was sold to the Ministry of Defence and the US continued to use the site during the Cold War.

The town’s first public library was not a popular decision with the wealthy

High Wycombe’s first public library was opened in 1875 after the philanthropist James Olliff Griffits acquired the old school in Church Street and created a library - he even paid for most of it himself.

However, it was not popular with the wealthy men of the town as they wanted working class men to be drinking beer in their pubs rather than educating themselves.

Global bakery Hovis is based in the town

While Hovis did not start its life in High Wycombe, it was actually founded in Staffordshire, its head office is now in the town.

The company was founded over 130 years ago and sells some of Britain’s most well-known products to families in Bucks and across the country.

It has even had famous faces behind its adverts - its ‘Boy on the Bike’ advert which was incredibly popular at the time was directed by Ridley Scott who also made the film Alien.

The town is twinned with Kelkheim in Germany

High Wycombe has been paired with German town Kelkheim for over 35 years after signing a twinning agreement in 1985.

The document said that the purpose of the twinning was “to maintain permanent bonds between our two municipalities, to promote exchanges of all kinds between their inhabitants with the aim of fostering through greater mutual understanding the true spirit of European brotherhood.”

You can join up as a member if you’re from the High Wycombe area and participate in trips to the German town.

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High & West Wycombe

Stretching for several miles along the River Wye, High Wycombe is one of the largest towns in Buckinghamshire. An important commercial centre since since Roman times, it became a thriving wool and lace town during the middle ages. Since the 18th century is has been better know for furniture manufacture, particularly Windsor Chairs. An industry based on the local beech trees that proliferate in the surrounding Chiltern Hills.

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Of the several fine buildings in the Georgian High Street are the Guildhall (1757) and octagonal Market House (1604). Both scheduled Ancient Monuments. The Guildhall (shown here) is raised on stone arches with a cupola above. The octagonal Market House (or Shambles) is topped by a lantern designed by Robert Adam in 1761. Weekly markets are held beneath.

The town has several other old buildings of interest, including the Elizabethan almshouses in Bowerdean Road and Easton Street. The grand red brick and stone Town Hall (1904) is of late Renaissance style. Modern architecture in the town includes the new College of Technology and the General Hospital.

Two old coaching inns once stood in the High Street, the White Lion and the Red Lion. It was from the balcony of the Red Lion that Benjamin Disraeli made his first political speech. Later becoming Prime Minister, Disraeli lived at nearby Hughenden Manor from 1848 until his death in 1881.

The medieval parish church (All Saints), is the largest in the county. It supports a 100ft tower with a peal of 14 bells. Within, it has fine woodwork screens and stalls. A large stained-glass window was a gift of Dame Francis Dove in memory of 17 famous women.

The ruins of the Hospital of St.John the Baptist (located at the end of Easton Street), date back to 1180. The hospital ran up until 1550, when it became a school. The school operated up until 1883, when it finally moved to a new building and the old buildings were demolished.

The remains of a 2nd-c Roman villa were unearthed just east of All Saints Church. Several prehistoric structures and ancient earthworks can also be found on the nearby hills, indicating a long history of settlement in this area.

The town is located in the heart of the Chiltern Hills and is an ideal base from which to explore this beautiful area of countryside.

Wycombe Museum

The Grade II listed Castle Hill House (17th-c), set in the grounds of a medieval motte-and-bailey, houses an extensive collection of domestic chairs and chair making equipment, telling the story of the local furniture industry and other trades. Chair and furniture designs from the reign of James I to Queen Anne are exhibited, including examples of Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Windsor.

West Wycombe

The charming estate of West Wycombe lies a little further west, along the A40. The estate contains a National Trust owned village and the ancestral home of the Dashwood family, who still live at the main house. The village is a genuine homestead, lived in by local workers. The main street is lined with 15th to 18th century half-timbered and brick buildings, which have been authentically maintained.

Next to the village is Wycombe Park, a great house built in the 18th-c to a Humphry Repton design. It has an excellent collection of old masterpieces, tapestries and period furniture. The surrounding grounds and landscaped parkland contain an artificial lake shaped like a swan and several classical temples. On the hill, opposite the park, sits St Lawrence's Church. An unusual ecclesiastical building, remodeled by Sir Francis Dashwood with great Corinthian columns, painted ceilings, and fine ironwork and wood carvings. A large golden ball sits on the top, reputed to be a venue for the infamous Hellfire Club.

Wycombe Park was the home of Sir Francis Dashwood from 1708 to 1781, who founded the Hell-Fire Club. Members are said to have held wild parties in caves hewn out of the nearby hillside, with mock Gothic ruin entrance. The house and grounds are open to the public (National Trust).

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The Old Queens Head

Type: pub/inn.

Tel: +44 1494 813371

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Accessibility.

• Designated parking provided for guests with disabilities
• Disability awareness training for all personnel
• Guide dogs permitted
• Menus available in large print format
• Cater for vegetarians
• Serve breakfast - Breakfast - Brunch every Sat 9.30am-noon
• Serve evening meal
• Serve lunch
• Special dietary requirements catered for - Advanced notice required.

Children & Infants

• Accept children (Minimum age)
• Children's menu

Establishment Features

• Beer Garden
• Booking required - Restaurant booking is required on weekends. During the week it is not required but is highly recommended.
• Groups accepted - Smaller groups only.
• Pets accepted
• Real log/coal fires
• Wine Selection
• Wireless Internet Access

Parking & Transport

• Off site parking
• On site parking

Payment Methods

• American Express accepted
• Delta accepted
• MasterCard accepted
• Visa accepted

Provider Preferences

• Al fresco dining

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Map & directions.

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Road Directions

From Beaconsfield Old Town (Junction 2, M40) take the B474 Penn Road towards Beaconsfield New Town. Carry on straight through towards Penn, then after approx 3 miles go left into School Road & then left again after 500 yards into Hammersley Lane. The Old Queens Head is on the corner opposite the Church.

From Loudwater (Junction 3, M40) take the A40 towards Wycombe. After just over 1/2 mile, turn right into Hammersley Lane, signposted to Penn & Tylers Green. The pub is 1.5 miles up the hill, just before the T-junction.

From High Wycombe (Junction 4, M40) take the A40 towards Beaconsfield. After 1.5 miles turn left into Hammersley Lane & follow directions above.

From Amersham, take the back roads through Winchmore Hill & Penn Street (If you know the way!) or go through Beaconsfield & follow the directions above.

Public Transport Directions

The nearest railway station is: Beaconsfield, which is approximately 5 minutes from The Old Queens Head.

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