Wycombe Rural District


Wycombe was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England.
The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the disbanded Wycombe Rural Sanitary District. The district was named after, and based in, High Wycombe. The rural district did not include the town, however, which was a separate municipal borough.

Area and parishes

The district consisted of a number of rural parishes surrounding High Wycombe. In 1934 it was enlarged, when a county review order added the area of the abolished Hambleden Rural District.
ParishChanges
BledlowMerged with Saunderton 1934
Bledlow cum SaundertonFormed by the merger of two parishes in 1934
Bradenham
Chepping Wycombe RuralRenamed Chepping Wycombe 1949
Ellesborough
FawleyTransferred from Hambleden RD 1934
FingestRenamed Fingest and Lane End 1937
Great and Little HampdenParishes had been merged in 1885
Great and Little KimbleParishes had been merged in 1885
Great MarlowPart of parish became Marlow Urban District in 1897
HambledenTransferred from Hambleden RD 1934
Hedsor
HorsendenAbolished 1934: area split between Bledlow cum Saunderton and Princes Risborough
Hughenden
Ibstone
IlmerAbolished 1934: formed part of Longwick cum Ilmer
Lacey GreenFormed 1934 from part of Princes Risborough
Little Marlow
Little MissendenTransferred to Amersham Rural District 1901
Longwick cum IlmerFormed 1934 by merger of Ilmer and Monks Risborough
MedmenhamTransferred from Hambleden RD 1934
Monks Risboroughabolished 1934, most passed to new parish of Longwick cum Ilmer
Princes Risborough
Radnage
SaundertonMerged with Bledlow 1934
StokenchurchTransferred from Oxfordshire 1895
Turville
West WycombeAbolished 1934, with part added to enlarged Borough of Chepping Wycombe, remainder to West Wycombe Rural
West Wycombe RuralFormed 1934 from the part of West Wycombe not added to the borough with part of Hughenden
Wooburn