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England Buckinghamshire  High Wycombe

Guide to High Wycombe history, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



Cemeteries (Civil)
High Wycombe Cemetery


 * Hamilton Rd
 * High Wycombe HP13 5BH

Four Ashes Garden of Rest


 * Four Ashes Road
 * High Cryers Hill
 * High Wycombe HP15 6JY
 * Phone: +44 1494 715296

Parishes
All Saints


 * Church Square
 * High Wycombe HP11 2BN
 * Phone: +44 1494 520857

All Saints Parish Church


 * 8 Castle St
 * High Wycombe HP13 6RF
 * Phone: +44 1494 527526

St Anne's and St Peter's


 * The Vicarage
 * Micklefield Rd
 * High Wycombe HP13 7HU
 * Phone: +44 1494 520323

St Peter's


 * Treadaway Hill
 * Loudwater HP10 9QL
 * Phone: +44 1628 526087

St Paul's


 * 3 High St
 * West Wycombe
 * High Wycombe HP14 3AE
 * Phone: +44 1494 529988

St Francis of Assisi


 * Amersham Rd
 * High Wycombe HP13 5AB
 * Phone: +44 1494 520676

St James'


 * Just off the top of Plomer Hill
 * Downley, HP13 5NB
 * Phone: +44 1494 465608

Non Conformists
Other Christian and non-christian groups follow:


 * Baptist
 * Cherith Christian Fellowship
 * Christ Church
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * First Church of Christ Scientist
 * Jehovah's Witness
 * Methodist
 * Presbyterian
 * Roman Catholic
 * Wycombe Community Church

Non Christian groups that meet regularly in Bournemouth include:


 * Buddhist
 * Hindu
 * Jewish
 * Muslim
 * Sikh

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the UK government, from July 1837 to the present day.


 * bmd records: High Wycombe


 * Buckinghamshire County Council BMD records office


 * ukbmd.org: Buckinghamshire

Local Histories

 * visionofbritain.org: HIgh Wycombe


 * Mayor's Office of High Wycombe: history


 * High Wycombe History by Martin Andrew


 * High Wycombe Past by James Rattue

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Michelin Maps: High Wycombe


 * oldmapsonline: Buckinghamshire


 * francisfrith.com: old maps of High Wycombe


 * britainexpress.com: High Wycombe Gazetteer


 * forebears.io: High Wycombe

Newspapers

 * bucks free press


 * Independent.co.uk: High Wycombe

Occupations
Wakefield lost most of its major employment opportunities toward the end of the twentieth century, as the coal mines and traditional engineering industries shut down. This contributed to one of the highest unemployment levels in the area.

The city council has worked with the UK Government in diversifying employment opportunities, with stellar growth in the legal arena, financing, and education.

Large companies such as Beaumont Legal, Minster Law, Team 17 Digital, PC Specialist, Fujitsu, GCI Communications PLC, Morrisons Supermarkets, Sainsbury's, the NHS, and XPO Logistics have all established regional HQ's in Wakefield.

Regeneration projects in Wakefield included the Trinity Walk retail development to the north east of the city center, including department stores, a supermarket and shop units. Wakefield Westgate Station goods yard and land on Westgate and Balne Lane have been developed to create retail, residential and commercial space including new offices, a multi-storey carpark serving the station, and a hotel. Developments by the river and canal, the "Wakefield Waterfront", include the refurbishment of the Grade II listed Navigation Warehouse and office, retail, restaurant and cafe units.

However Wakefield would still be listed as an economic backwater by 2016, and is certainly not providing many opportunities to local school leavers who opt to remove to better locations such as Leeds and York within Yorkshire, or heading south the the London megalopolis.

Societies

 * Buckinghamshire Family History Society


 * The High Wycombe Society


 * Buckinghamshire Genealogical Resources

Archives

 * britishnewspaperarchive.co: High Wycombe


 * The National Archives: High Wycombe


 * Buckinghamshire County Council Archives

Web Sites

 * wikipedia; Wakefield


 * Wakefield City Council


 * West Yorkshire Combined Authority