Welcome to Chepping Wycombe
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Chepping Wycombe is a civil parish in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish includes the three large villages of Tylers Green, Loudwater, and Flackwell Heath. The central part of the parish comprises extensive business and industrial development lying adjacent and underneath an elevated section of the M40 in the valley of the River Wye. The name is a variant of earlier Chipping, from the Old English word cieping, 'market' or 'market-place'. Historically, Chepping or Chipping Wycombe was the formal name of the ancient borough and later municipal borough of High Wycombe or Much-Wiccomb. It was also the name of the ancient parish which included the borough and extended further than the borough boundary to also cover the surrounding rural area. The ancient parish of Chepping Wycombe was split in 1866, with the part inside the borough becoming a separate civil parish called "Wycombe" or "Wycombe Borough", leaving the reduced parish of Chepping Wycombe covering the more rural areas outside the borough. Between 1868 and 1880 the parish of Chepping Wycombe was governed by a Local Board of Health. The board was abolished in 1880 when the borough boundaries were extended, notably taking in Wycombe Marsh and other areas from Chepping Wycombe parish. However, the parish boundaries were not changed to match the new borough boundary in 1880, and so the parish of Chepping Wycombe again found itself part inside and part outside the borough. In 1894, when parish councils were introduced under the Local Government Act 1894, the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe was split between the urban area of High Wycombe (Chepping Wycombe Urban parish) and the rural areas outside the borough to the east (Chepping Wycombe Rural parish). The parish was reduced in size in 1901 ceding land to the adjacent High Wycombe parish and its boundaries were further changed in 1934. Chepping Wycombe Rural parish was renamed simply Chepping Wycombe in 1949. Today the areas which comprised the historic borough and that of the civil parish, (the residual part of the ecclesiastical parish) together with West Wycombe constitute the majority of the present-day High Wycombe Urban Area.
Parish Information
Parish statistics
Area |
1,154 hectares |
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Population |
14,534 (2021) |
Density |
1,260 people/km2 |
Mean age |
41.0 |
Ward |
Flackwell Heath, Little Marlow and Marlow South East |
District |
Wycombe |
Postcodes |
HP10, HP11, HP13, HP9 |
ONS ID |
E04001594 |
Council
Contact details for Chepping Wycombe Parish Council, including current councillors, precept data and election results.
Education
View educational establishments in Chepping Wycombe Parish. Data includes OFSTED rating and current appointed governors.
Business
Business directory listing local businesses operating within Chepping Wycombe Parish.
Planning
View recent planning applications submitted for Chepping Wycombe Parish.
Property
Price paid data for all property sold in Chepping Wycombe Parish since 2018. Includes average prices for each property type.
Heritage
Local heritage sites, historic churches, heritage pubs plus local heritage initiatives for Chepping Wycombe Parish.
Local News
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Flackwell Heath FC Minors have their car park repaired
Published: 28th Jan 2024
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Incredible history of town's second oldest building ahead of revamp works
Published: 30th Oct 2020
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M40 in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire sound reduction work begins
Published: 8th Sep 2016