Place record 0269100000 - HIGH WYCOMBE

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General background information for High Wycombe parish

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NON ANTIQUITY (Undated)

Description

LOCAL GOVT ACT 1894, OLD PARISH OF WYCOMBE & PORTION OF CHEPPING WYCOMBE FORMED INTO CIVIL PARISH. 1901 EXTENDED TO INCLUDE PARTS OF CHEPPING WYCOMBE RURAL & WEST WYCOMBE (B1).
CHARTERS RE MISSENDEN ABBEY'S HOLDINGS IN HIGH WYCOMBE (B2).
DESK-TOP STUDY OF TOWN CENTRE AREA (B3).
History of West Wycombe village in C18 (B4).
Documentary references to parish and local histories (B8,B10-17,B30).
MSc thesis on surviving remains of furniture industry in High Wycombe (B9).
Negative watching brief at Central Service Station site, Temple End (B5).
Desk-top study of 'Western Sector' (Newland) area (B6).
Negative watching brief at Copperfield, West Wycombe Road (B18).
Negative evaluation at the corner of Corporation and Castle Streets (B19).
Negative evaluation at 30-48 Castle Street (B20).
Desk-top study for John North Hall campus, Cressex (B21).
Desk-top study for Octagon Parade (B22).
Desk-top study for Amersham & Wycombe College compare site (B23)
Negative Watching Brief, land adjacent 23 Easton Street (B25).
Desk-top study for Leigh Street (B26)
Negative watching brief, 1-3 Priory Avenue (B27).
DBA for Gomm Valley (B28 and 29)
Negative watching brief (b31)
The Natural History Museum, London has a Rangifer tarandus (reindeer) metacarpal - (M11562). An attached label records that it came from ‘?from river deposit, given Tomas Thurston 1917.’, and the register records that it was given in March 1917 and came from ‘23 feet beneath the surface and about 2 foot above stream level’ Mr Thurston has not been traced in local directories of the period, however, the name could be an error for a better recorded Thomas Thurlow who was certainly involved in construction projects (see ‘gasometer’ site below). Given such a deep excavation it might be possible to work out with which works the discovery was associated. Immediately subsequent to Colmer’s note (above) is a some script that is difficult to read but which apparently records mammoth tusks from ‘Desboro Castle’ (?). The earthwork known as Desborough Castle lies some distance west of the gasometer find and well above the valley bottom so the note might refer to a separate discovery in the valley below the castle but upstream of the rhinoceros tooth find. (B24).

Sources (30)

<1>SBC6959 Bibliographic reference: Kelly's Directories Ltd. KELLY'S DIRECTORY BUCKS 1939.
<2>SBC6782 Bibliographic reference: JENKINS J G 1962 CARTULARY OF MISSENDEN ABBEY PT III; BUCKSRECORDSOC-IETY12PP111-131"CHARTERS706-733.
<3>SBC3380 Unpublished document: County Archaeological Service, Hereford & Worcester County Council. 1996. ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESK-BASED ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIANISATION PROPOSALS, HIGH WYCOMBE.
<4>SBC19413 Article in serial: Mary Everett. 1994. West Wycombe Village in the Eighteenth Century.
<5>SBC19655 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2002. Central Service Station, Temple End, High Wycombe: Archaeological Watching Brief.
<6>SBC19113 Unpublished document: Mills Whipp Archaeological Consultancy. 2001. Western Sector, High Wycombe: Archaeological Desktop Assessment.
<7>SBC20258 Unpublished document: Herbert Green. 1986?. Notes on wells in West Wycombe.
<8>SBC19605 Bibliographic reference: Ivan G Sparkes. 1990. High Wycombe: A Pictorial History.
<9>SBC22231 Unpublished document: Marian Miller. 2004. High Wycombe: Furniture Town.
<10>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p194 - 203.
<11>SBC22464 Bibliographic reference: James Rattue. 2002. High Wycombe Past.
<12>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p112-134.
<13>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p916-931.
<14>SBC22574 Bibliographic reference: True North Books Ltd. 1999. Memories of High Wycombe.
<15>SBC22577 Bibliographic reference: Roger Coles (ed). 2001. High Wycombe.
<16>SBC22575 Bibliographic reference: Martin Andrew. 2005. High Wycombe: A History and Celebration.
<17>SBC22576 Bibliographic reference: Colin J Seabright. 2005. High Wycombe Revisited.
<18>SBC22812 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2007. 21-23 Copperfields, West Wycombe: Archaeological Watching Brief Report.
<19>SBC22845 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2007. Archaeological Strip and Record Excavation: First Church of Christ Scientist. Corporation Street, High Wycombe.
<20>SBC22964 Unpublished document: Thames Valley Archaeological Services. 2007. 30-48 Castle Street, High Wycombe: An Archaeological Evaluation.
<21>SBC23390 Unpublished document: CgMs Consulting. 2008. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: John North Hall Campus, High Wycombe.
<22>SBC23494 Unpublished document: Mills Whipp Archaeological Consultancy. 2009. Octagon Parade, High Wycombe: Archaeological Desktop Assessment.
<23>SBC23521 Unpublished document: CgMs Consulting. 2008. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: Amersham & Wycombe College, CompAir site, High Wycombe..
<24>SBC24233 Article in serial: Michael Farley. 2012. 'Discoveries of Ice Age Mammals and other Pleistocene Deposits in Central and North Buckinghamshire', in Recs of Bucks 52 pp1-23. Vol 52.
<25>SBC24959 Unpublished document: KDK Archaeology Ltd. 2017. Archaeological observation and recording report, Land adjacent to 23 Easton Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
<26>SBC24922 Unpublished document: CgMs Consulting. 2017. Archaeological desk-based assessment: Land at Leigh Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
<27>SBC25077 Unpublished document: KDK Archaeology Ltd. 2018. Archaeological Observation and Recording Report: 1-3 Priory Avenue, High Wycombe.
<29>SBC25130 Unpublished document: Arcadis. 2018. Cultural Heritage Desk-Based Assessment Addendum.
<30>SBC25205 Bibliographic reference: Chris Gladstone. 2000. Totteridge: A Buckinghamshire Village.
<31>SBC25383 Unpublished document: Cotswold Archaeology. 2015. Westbourne Street Link Road, High Wycombe: Archaeological Watching Brief.

Location

Grid reference	Centred SU 858 936 (8384m by 5328m)
Civil Parish	HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (3)

Related Events/Activities (4)

Event - Survey: Archaeological desk-based assessment (Ref: RM/23175) (EBC17938)
Event - Intervention: Archaeological Observation and recording (Watching Brief), land adjacent to 23 Easton Street (EBC17984)
Event - Survey: Desk-based assessment for Gomm Valley (EBC18117)
Event - Intervention: Watchingbrief undertaken at 1-3 Priory Avenue, High Wycombe (Ref: 285/HWP) (EBC18069)

Record last edited

Dec 12 2023 10:03AM