Gomm’s Wood

Gomm’s Wood is a 30-acre site on the eastern side of the north end of the Micklefield Valley. The wood looks over Micklefield towards Highfield and Hangingcroft Woods on the west side of the valley, and looks north over King’s Wood, a very large wood which extends to Tylers Green, Totteridge and Terriers.

Chepping Wycombe Parish Council’s Kingswood Cemetery car park, at the northern end of the single-track section of Cock Lane, provides a convenient place to park when visiting Gomm’s Wood.

Gomm’s Wood became a Local Wildlife Site in 2008, and a Local Nature Reserve in 2010. The wood is owned by Buckinghamshire Council and is managed by the Chiltern Rangers Community Interest Company. The site is managed to maintain a diversity of habitats including both mature and young woodland, scrub, chalk grassland glades, hazel coppice and a large meadow. As a result of good management, this reserve has a wide range of fauna and flora. Micklefield Bank, the large meadow on the western side of the wood has one of the largest populations of orchids within High Wycombe. Whether your main interest is plants, birds, or butterflies and other invertebrates, there is plenty to see and enjoy on this reserve.