Wildlife Sites – Wycombe Wildlife Group

Chairborough Local Nature Reserve

Wycombe Wildlife Group has had an on-going interest in this nature reserve since the Group was formed in 1989, when the site became the main location for our Group’s first conservation tasks. Following its designation as High Wycombe’s first Local Nature Reserve in 1992, management of the reserve became the responsibility of the then Wycombe District Council’s Ranger Service (now the Chiltern Rangers Community Interest Company), and was incorporated in the Wycombe Woodlands Project.
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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.
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Highfield and Hangingcroft Woods

Although Highfield and Hangingcroft Woods are separate woods, only a boundary bank separates them: this is not easy to spot unless you know where to look. Both woods are owned by Buckinghamshire Council, and a single Local Wildlife Site designation dating from 2010 covers the two woods. Together, they occupy 22 acres of land that has escaped both past agricultural use and the intensive residential development that replaced all the former farmland within the Micklefield area many years ago.
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King’s Wood

King’s Wood covers 186 acres, and is one of largest woods around High Wycombe. The northern part of the wood can be entered via a footpath off the A404 Amersham Road, or from the open grassland near its junction with Totteridge Lane. The central part of the wood is accessible from Totteridge Road by The Dolphin PH on the west and from Kingswood Road on the east: there are car parking areas at both locations.
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Kingswood Cemetery

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. It is well worth walking through the cemetery to look at the wildflowers growing on the banks.
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Sands Bank Local Nature Reserve

Sands Bank is a 27 acre site, leased to Buckinghamshire Council from West Wycombe Estate. It is managed for the Council by the Chiltern Rangers Community Interest Company. This nature reserve, comprising good quality chalk grassland, scrub and woodland, is a haven for wildlife. It also links with other nearby open spaces and the wider countryside to form an important wildlife corridor into the western side of High Wycombe.
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