Mop End

Mop End

Coordinates: 51°39′52″N 0°39′55″W / 51.664464°N 0.665274°W / 51.664464; -0.665274

Mop End
Mop End is located in Buckinghamshire
Mop End

 Mop End shown within Buckinghamshire
OS grid reference SU923970
District Chiltern
Shire county Buckinghamshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Mop End is a small hamlet in the parish of Little Missenden, in Buckinghamshire, England.

It is best known as the location of the Amersham Field Centre sited at the National Grid substation in nearby woodland.

In former times, Mop End was the location of an ancient Inn called The Griffin.

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Towns
(Component Areas
and Hamlets)
Amersham (Woodrow) • Chesham (Botley, Chesham Vale, Chessmount, Codmore, Great Hivings, Hilltop, Lye Green, Newtown, Orchard Leigh, Pednormead End, Pond Park, Waterside)
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Other Civil Parishes
(Component Villages
and Hamlets)
Ashley Green (Ashley Green, Whelpley Hill) • Chenies • Chalfont St Giles (Bottrells Close, Chalfont Grove, Chalfont St Giles, Jordans, Stratton Chase) • Chalfont St Peter (Austenwood, Chalfont Common, Gravel Hill, Layters Green) • Chartridge (Asheridge, Bellingdon, Chartridge, Hundridge, Pednor, Pednor Bottom) • Chesham Bois • Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards (Buckland Common, Cholesbury, Hawridge, St Leonards) • Coleshill • Great Missenden (Ballinger, Ballinger Bottom, Ballinger Common, Bryant's Bottom, Frith-hill, Great Missenden, Heath End, Hotley Bottom, Hyde End, Little Wood Corner, Mobwell, Prestwood, South Heath) • Latimer (Latimer, Ley Hill, Tyler's Hill) • Little Chalfont • Little Missenden (Beamond End, Holmer Green, Hyde Heath, Little Kingshill, Little Missenden, Mantles Green, Mop End, Spurlands End) • Penn (Beacon Hill, Forty Green, Knotty Green, Penn, Penn Bottom, Penn Street, Winchmore Hill) • Seer Green • The Lee (Lee Clump, Lee Common, Lee Gate, Hunt's Green, Swan Bottom, The Lee)
Former Districts
and Boroughs
Former
Constituencies

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