Wycombe is a district of fascinating contrasts, home to the green and rolling Chiltern Hills that so inspired John Betjeman and to the gently meandering historic River Thames. Officially designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Chilterns and Thames Valley, offer some of the most stunning countryside in England, within a stones throw of London.

High Wycombe, (previously Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe as late as 1911) is a town in South Buckinghamshire, England. It is 29 miles west-north-west of London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town. According to the 2001 census the High Wycombe urban area had a population of 118,229, making it the largest town in the shire county of Buckinghamshire now that Milton Keynes is a unitary authority, and the second largest in the ceremonial county.