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 several good villages in the Great Missenden area like Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury are some of Great Missenden best towns to visit near Great Missenden.

Great Missenden has some unmissable parks nearby like Willen Lake, and Campbell Park.

The area around Great Missenden features a number of interesting lakes including Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park.

Great Missenden has some unmissable shopping centres nearby like The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

Great Missenden has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like 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.

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

Wycombe Air Park is one of Great Missenden's best, nearby airports to visit in Great Missenden.

Great Missenden History

There are some historic monuments around Great Missenden:

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