Area and Parishes
The district consisted of a number of rural parishes surrounding High Wycombe. In 1934 it was enlarged, when a county review order added the area of the abolished Hambleden Rural District.
| Parish | Changes |
|---|---|
| Bledlow | Merged with Saunderton 1934 |
| Bledlow cum Saunderton | Formed by the merger of two parishes in 1934 |
| Bradenham | |
| Chepping Wycombe Rural | Renamed Chepping Wycombe 1949 |
| Ellesborough | |
| Fawley | Transferred from Hambleden RD 1934 |
| Fingest | Renamed Fingest and Lane End 1937 |
| Great and Little Hampden | Parishes had been merged in 1885 |
| Great and Little Kimble | Parishes had been merged in 1885 |
| Great Marlow | Part of parish became Marlow Urban District in 1897 |
| Hambleden | Transferred from Hambleden RD 1934 |
| Hedsor | |
| Horsenden | Abolished 1934: area split between Bledlow cum Saunderton and Princes Risborough |
| Hughenden | |
| Ibstone | |
| Ilmer | Abolished 1934: formed part of Longwick cum Ilmer |
| Lacey Green | Formed 1934 from part of Princes Risborough |
| Little Marlow | |
| Little Missenden | Transferred to Amersham Rural District 1901 |
| Longwick cum Ilmer | Formed 1934 by merger of Ilmer and Monks Risborough (with parts Princes Risborough of Towersey) |
| Medmenham | Transferred from Hambleden RD 1934 |
| Monks Risborough | abolished 1934, most passed to new parish of Longwick cum Ilmer |
| Princes Risborough | |
| Radnage | |
| Saunderton | Merged with Bledlow 1934 |
| Stokenchurch | Transferred from Oxfordshire 1895 |
| Turville | |
| West Wycombe | Abolished 1934, with part added to enlarged Borough of Chepping Wycombe, remainder to West Wycombe Rural |
| West Wycombe Rural | Formed 1934 from the part of West Wycombe not added to the borough with part of Hughenden |
| Wooburn |
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