Let's plan a visit! HUGHENDEN MANOR (High Wycombe) - official video guide
WHAT IT IS. ☞ Twice former-Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli’s home, and a top secret mapmaking facility during WWII.
DISRAELI’S HOME. ☞ This comes in the form of period rooms on G/F (photo). Staffers and notes will illuminate much of the furniture and items, but you’ll pretty much need our big brother google for information on the house owners.
MAPMAKING. ☞ This part of the manor’s history came as a surprise in 2004, when a volunteer overheard visitors chatting about the house’s secret use during WWII.
Further research was conducted, and with interviews and documents released through the Official Secrets Act, more details of the mapmaking activities were to surface in the following years. This has accumulated into an exhibition in the basement (which is sadly now closed) and now occupying the first (clip) and the remaining ground floor.
Second floor is closed.
LOCATION. ☞ As much as I enjoy a bus ride, a simple hike through a park will bring you there.
Nearest train station: High Wycombe. As you exit the station, walk east along Priory Avenue. Keep walking along and you’ll find yourself going north and up into Hughenden Road / A4128.
If you don’t mind getting muddy (and I mean your entire shoe soaking and sinking), you can also walk through Hughenden Park instead of the main road.
COSTS. ☞ £12.60, and half price for children.
Travel problem? Let's chat.
Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Date of visit: 2019.11
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
DISRAELI’S HOME. ☞ This comes in the form of period rooms on G/F (photo). Staffers and notes will illuminate much of the furniture and items, but you’ll pretty much need our big brother google for information on the house owners.
G/F, HUGHENDEN MANOR (High Wycombe)
MAPMAKING. ☞ This part of the manor’s history came as a surprise in 2004, when a volunteer overheard visitors chatting about the house’s secret use during WWII.
Further research was conducted, and with interviews and documents released through the Official Secrets Act, more details of the mapmaking activities were to surface in the following years. This has accumulated into an exhibition in the basement (which is sadly now closed) and now occupying the first (clip) and the remaining ground floor.
Second floor is closed.
Clip: 1/F, HUGHENDEN MANOR (High Wycombe)
LOCATION. ☞ As much as I enjoy a bus ride, a simple hike through a park will bring you there.
Nearest train station: High Wycombe. As you exit the station, walk east along Priory Avenue. Keep walking along and you’ll find yourself going north and up into Hughenden Road / A4128.
If you don’t mind getting muddy (and I mean your entire shoe soaking and sinking), you can also walk through Hughenden Park instead of the main road.
COSTS. ☞ £12.60, and half price for children.
Travel problem? Let's chat.
Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Date of visit: 2019.11
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
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