Wooburn

Wooburn

infobox UK place

country = England
latitude=51.58086
longitude=-0.69097
official_name= Wooburn
population = 770
civil_parish= Wooburn
shire_district= Wycombe
shire_county = Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Beaconsfield
post_town= HIGH WYCOMBE
postcode_district = HP10
postcode_area= HP
dial_code= 01628
static_

static_image_caption= St Paul's Church, Wooburn
os_grid_reference= SU908877

Wooburn is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located off the A4094 road between Wooburn Green and Bourne End in the very south of the county near the River Thames, about two miles south west of Beaconsfield and four miles east of Marlow. Wooburn is one of the two principle settlements within Wooburn and Bourne End a civil parish in Wycombe district.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'walled stream'. This refers to the River Wye, which has its source near West Wycombe and runs through the village to join the River Thames at Bourne End. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as "Waborne" though earlier, in 1075, it had been referred to as "Waburna".

The church of St Paul's is of medieval origin but was extensively altered by William Butterfield in 1869. It has a flint nave and a tall tower. there are some half timbered houses facing the churchyard and nearby there is a flint school house.

The manor house of Wooburn was anciently a palace of the Bishops of Lincoln.


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