High Wycombe is also known as Wycombe which is a large town located in Buckinghamshire, England. High Wycombe is 29 miles north-west of London Charing-cross. As of 2015, High Wycombe has a population of 124,475 making it the second largest town in Buckinghamshire after Milton Keynes. The Urban area of High Wycombe, conurbation of which town is the most important part has a population of around 133,204.
In Wycombe District, High Wycombe is the unparished area. Civil Parish of Chepping Wycombe comprises urban area. It had a population of 14,455 according to 2001 census. This parish also represents older part of Chepping Wycombe located outside the borough of Wycombe. Wycombe is a combination of market and industrial town and also produce furniture. In High Street, there has been market held since the middle ages.
Education
Buckinghamshire has a particular education system based on the previous tripartite system. People in last year at primary school are known as an 11+ exam. A score of people in this exam shows whether they are accepted into grammar school or secondary modern school.
Wycombe is home to many Primary Schools. A list of these schools follows:
- Catchment area primary schools
- Beechview Junior School
- Ash Hill Combined School
- Booker Hill Combined School
- Chepping view Combined School
- Castlefield Combined School
- Hamilton Academy
- Kings Wood Combined School
- Hannah Ball School
- Marsh Infants School
- Highworth Combined School and Nursery
- High Wycombe Church of England Combined School
- Oakridge Combined School
- Millbrook Combined School The Disraeli Combined School and Children’s Centre
- St Michael’s Catholic School
Secondary Schools in High Wycombe are :
- Highcrest Academy
- Cressex Community School
- Royal Grammar School
- Wycombe High School
- John Hampden Grammar School
- Royal Grammar School
- St Michael’s Catholic School
- Sir William Ramsay School.
Wycombe also has indeependent schools . For higher and further education college located near high Wycombe with campuses at Amersham and Chesham. The main campus of Buckinghamshire New University is also located in High Wycombe. Located in the centre of town on the former site of High Wycombe College of Art and Technology. It got its university charter in 2007 summer.
