Great Missenden is a Town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Retail in Great Missenden

There are great places to visit near Great Missenden including some great villages, towns, parks, lakes, shopping centres, historic buildings, country parks and airports.

There are a number of villages near Great Missenden including Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Great Missenden's best nearby towns can be found at Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Parks to visit near Great Missenden include Willen Lake, and Campbell Park.

Don't miss Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park's lakes if visiting the area around Great Missenden.

There are a several good shopping centres in the Great Missenden area like The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

Don't miss Church of St Simon and St Jude, St Peter and St Paul - Olney, Weston Underwood, Church of St James the Great - Hanslope, The Old Gaol, and Waddesdon Manor's historic buildings if visiting the area around Great Missenden.

Don't miss Thorney Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Great Missenden.

Places near Great Missenden feature a number of interesting airports including Wycombe Air Park.

Great Missenden History

There are some historic monuments around Great Missenden:

• Bowl barrow on Bacombe Hill
• Small multivallate hillfort on Pulpit Hill
• Moated site and enclosures at Redding Wick
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.13km long section from Grymsdyke Manor to RAF High Wycombe
• Castle Hill, a motte and bailey castle and Saxon burial 50m west of Castle Hill House
• The Castle, a moated site at Oaken Corner in Wendover Woods
• Moated site in Chalkdell Wood, 100m north west of Frith Hill House
• Moated site and associated earthworks in Bray's Wood
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: two sections between Oaken Grove and Lanes End
• Motte and bailey castle, moated site and Roman villa immediately east of All Saint's Church
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 660m long section to the west of Walter's Ash
• Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 990m long section between Crawley's Lane and Rossway Lane
• Castle Tower: a motte and bailey castle 100m north of Hill House
• Cross dyke on Ragpit Hill, 230m ENE of Great Kimble church
• Bowl barrow on Beaconsfield golf course, known as `The Mount'
• Motte and bailey in grounds of manor house
• Roman settlement at the Cow Roast Inn
• Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 230m long section in Hamberlins Wood
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 520m long section between Lanes End and Bottom Road
• Moated site immediately north west of Little Pednor Farm
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1500m long section from Great Widmoor Wood to Oaken Grove
• Large multivallate hillfort known as Cholesbury Camp
• Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill
• Cymbeline's Castle: a motte and bailey castle 550m south west of Ellesborough church
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 875m long section between Leylands Farm and Shire Lane
• Bowl barrow on Beacon Hill, 500m south of Ellesborough church
• Desborough Castle
• Camp on Church Hill
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.02km long section from west of White House Farm to Lily Bank Farm
• Moated site at Grove Farm
• Motte castle known as Dane's Camp 400m south of Hampden House
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 245m long section in Oaken Grove with two associated post mill mounds, 235m south east of Briary Cottages
• Hawridge Court ringwork
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 370m long section 330m south east of Hampden House
• Boddington Camp: a slight univallate hillfort on the summit of Boddington Hill
• Dial Hill Roman barrow, 50m north west of St Nicholas's Church
• Moated site 90m west of Terrick House
• Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 1350m long section between Kiln Road and Chesham Road
• Cross dyke 480m east of Great Kimble church
• Pillow mound on Beacon Hill, 550m south of Ellesborough church
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 176m long section south west of White House Farm
• Earthworks in Park Wood
• Long barrow 200m east of parade ground, Groves Road, Halton Camp
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 580m long section between Lily Bottom Lane and Redland End
• Hertfordshire Grim's Ditch: 1150m long section between Shire Lane and Kiln Road
• Stool Baulk
• Bowl barrow in Lowndes Park, known as the `Rolling Pin'
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: section extending from Redland End through Barnes's Grove to Hampden Park
• St John the Baptist's Hospital
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 350m long section extending north east from Cottage Farm