Parish Noticeboard Makers In Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire

Great Missenden is a little town with approximately 2,000 residents in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England, situated surrounded by the towns of Amersham and Wendover, with forward rail connections to London Marylebone. It nearby adjoins the village of Little Kingshill, and is a mile from Little Missenden and the larger village Prestwood. The narrow and historic High Street is bypassed by the main A413 London to Aylesbury Road. It is located in the centre of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The source of the Misbourne is to be found just north of the town, although the upper achieve of the river runs solitary in winter and the perennial head is in Little Missenden. The town is now best known as house to the late Roald Dahl, the world-famous adult and children’s author.

In 2019 the broadcast town and postcode of HP16, which encompasses Little Kingshill, was revealed to be the most flourishing place in England, with The Guardian writing that “the least deprived neighbourhood in England is an area…near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, and a few kilometres to the south of the prime minister’s country domicile at Chequers.” The Guardian has moreover featured an article referring to how the town has been “prime stockbroker fashion accessory for higher than a century” and remarked favourably on its “grand piles tucked away in the folds of the Chilterns, all paddocks, ponies and leafy lanes, such as Dahl’s, Martinsend Lane, or Nags Head Lane.” The article plus mentions its “ancient churches, beech woods, deep valleys, rolling Chiltern Hills, higgledy-piggledy streets. That’s why Dahl chose to stir here.”The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, lists Great Missenden in its “List of Britain’s richest villages.”The Telegraph also ranked the town #4 in its “Best Places to Raise a Family in the UK” 2015 survey, describing it as a “gem of a town.”