High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about High Wycombe. You may be able to find further references to High Wycombe in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Chipping Wycombe (or High Wycombe, or Wycombe) municipal borough, market town, parish, and township Bartholomew
High Wycombe municipal borough Bartholomew
WYCOMBE a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
Wycombe, Chipping Wycombe, or High Wycombe municipal borough, market town, parish, and township Bartholomew
Wycombe Old Borough township Bartholomew
Wycombe (or Southern) Division parliamentary division Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with High Wycombe.

Place Type of entry Source
Flackwell Heath hamlet Bartholomew
Loudwater ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew
LOUDWATER a village and a chapelry Imperial
TYLERS-GREEN a chapelry Imperial
WYCOMBE (Marsh) a chapelry Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to High Wycombe within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Cobbett June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire 9
William Camden Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 6
Arthur Young 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands 3
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol 2
Charles Wesley May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire 2
Charles Wesley 1738: Around London, and Oxfordshire 1
Charles Wesley Sept. 2 - Dec. 30, 1745: Yorkshire and Durham 1
Daniel Defoe Appendix to the second volume 1
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Desborough 0 2
Wycombe Marsh 0 2
West Wycombe 0 3
Hazlemere 0 1
Hughenden 0 3
Flackwell Heath 0 2
Little Marlow 0 3
Tylers Green 0 2
Loudwater 0 2
Lane End 0 2
Bradenham 1 2
Lewknor Uphill 0 2
Ackhampstead 0 1
Penn 1 2
Fingest 0 2
Wooburn 0 3
Marlow 6 3
Penn Street 0 2
Cadmore End 0 1
Little Missenden 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for High Wycombe. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
CHIPPING WYCOMBE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CHIPPING WYCOMBE OR HIGH WYCOMBE OR WYCOMBE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
HIGH WICKHAM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
HIGH WYCOMBE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
HIGH WYCOMBE OR WYCOMBE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WICKHAM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
WICOMB William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WICOMBE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
WYCOMB Arthur Young Tours in England and Wales, selected from the Annals of Agriculture (London: London School of Economics, 1932).
WYCOMBE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
William Cobbett Rural Rides (Letchworth: Temple Press, 1932).
Charles Wesley The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1849).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
WYCOMBE CHIPPING WYCOMBE OR HIGH WYCOMBE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WYCOMBE OLD BOROUGH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WYCOMBE OR SOUTHERN DIVISION John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.