Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. 

A 19th century landscape park, extended and improved for the Prime Minister and author Benjamin Disraeli in the mid- to late-19th century, at which time formal gardens were created around the house.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Hughenden Manor is located 2.5 kilometres north of the centre of High Wycombe, at the northern extremity of the town, in the heart of the Chiltern Hills. The site, which occupies about 60 hectares, lies at the south end of the Naphill ridge. The park falls away to the east, with level lawns to the south and north of the house, and further parkland gently dropping away south of the house. The north-west of the site is largely wooded, in parts hanging woodland, situated on the west shoulder of the chalk escarpment. The site is bounded on the east by the A4128 High Wycombe to Great Missenden road. The south boundary is formed of suburban housing and light industrial units. The west and north boundaries are adjacent to farmland. Thus its setting to the south is urban, but to the north it is still agricultural and wooded, spread across steep scarps and more gentle rolling hillsides and valleys.

REFERENCES

Country Life, 1 (1 May 1897), pp 463-5; 113 (21 May 1953), pp 1604-7; (28 May 1953), p 1698; 171 (28 January 1982), pp 216-17

Hughenden Manor, guidebook, (National Trust 1955)

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (1994), pp 405-6

The Hughenden Estate Landscape Restoration Plan, (Bronwen Thomas for the National Trust, 1995)

Maps

Tithe map for Hughenden parish, 1844 (220), (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

Plan of the Hughenden Estate, 1846 (from sale particulars) (IR/M29/6), (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

Hughenden Inclosure map, 1859 (PR 110/26/2), (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1883

    2nd edition published 1900

1926 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1881-1882

    2nd edition published 1898

Description written: 1997

Edited: October 1999