West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

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West Wycombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Alternative names: Lane End

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

West Wycombe

  • Parish registers: 1663
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575

Lane End

  • Parish registers: 1832
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WYCOMBE (West), a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wycombe district, Bucks. The village stands on the Maidenhead and Thame railway, under a hill side, 2½ miles NW of Wycombe; is a picturesque place; carries on chair-making; and has a post-office under Wycombe, and a r. station.

The parish comprises 6,340 acres. Real property, £9,201. Pop. in 1851, 2,000; in 1861, 2,161. Houses, 437.

The manor belonged, till 1550, to the Bishops of Winchester; passed to the Dormers and others; and with W. Park, has belonged, since 1698, to the Dashwoods. The mansion was much enlarged in 1763, by Lord le Despencer; has a frontage of 300 feet; contains rich decorations, and some fine paintings; and stands in very fine grounds, partly laid out by Repton.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £300. Patron, Sir J. Dashwood King, Bart. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1763; is a handsome edifice in the Grecian style: stands on the top of a steep hill; and has attached to its E end a beautiful hexagonal mausoleum, now partially in ruins. A cave ½ a mile long, penetrates the church hill, and is much visited by tourists.

There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Buckinghamshire, West Wycombe – Census – 1851 ( 1 )
1851 census of West Wycombe & Bradenham
Author: Buckinghamshire Family History Society

England, Buckinghamshire, West Wycombe – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for West Wycombe, 1575-1814
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)

Parish registers for West Wycombe, 1602-1930
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)

West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, some extracts from the marriages (1719-1837) & extractes of burials (1839-1911)
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Wycombe (Buckinghamshire); Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

England, Buckinghamshire, West Wycombe – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Lane End, Bucks., Eng

Computer printout of West Wycombe, Bucks., Eng

England, Buckinghamshire, West Wycombe – History ( 2 )
The book of Wycombe
Author: Sparkes, Ivan G. (Ivan George), 1930-

Village life in the eighteenth century
Author: Green, Herbert

Administration

  • County: Buckinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wycombe
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
  • Diocese: Pre-1845 – Lincoln, Post-1844 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Wycombe
  • Poor Law Union: Wycombe
  • Hundred: Desborough
  • Province: Canterbury