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High Wycombe (inhabited place) |
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Lat: 51 38 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.6333 decimal degrees |
Long: 000 46 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -0.7667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on River Wye on edge of Chiltern Hills; earthworks here; noted for its furniture, especially fine beechwood Windsor chairs; other industries include paper mills and printing; rebuilt in the 16th century; home of 19th-century statesman Benjamin Disraeli. |
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High Wycombe (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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Chepping (NA,V,English,U)
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Wycombe (NA,V,English,U)
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Chepping Wycombe (H,V)
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Chipping Wycombe (H,V)
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Wicumbe (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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town (C) |
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manufacturing center (C) |
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industrial center (C) |
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