Skip to content
Mixroutes
Village in Buckinghamshire, England · United Kingdom

Prestwood

Prestwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

Prestwood
Prestwood · No Swan So Fine
The place

Prestwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about half a mile west of its post town, Great Missenden.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Prestwood

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre

    The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre is a museum in the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England. Children's and short story writer Roald Dahl lived in the village in Gipsy House for 36 years until his death in 1990.

    2.1 km · biographical museum in Great Missenden, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hampden House

    Hampden House is a country house in the village of Great Hampden, between Great Missenden and Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It is named after the Hampden family.

    3.7 km · country house in Great and Little Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Trinity Church, Prestwood

    Holy Trinity Church, Prestwood is the Church of England church serving the Buckinghamshire village and parish of Prestwood. The church, its lych gate and the church school, and Church Cottage at 134 Wycombe Road are listed, as well as Prestwood Park House behind the church.

    600 m · church building in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Elmhurst, Great Missenden

    Elmhurst is a semi-detached house at 5 High Street in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. It is divided into seven apartments.

    2.1 km · building in Great Missenden, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Great Missenden War Memorial

    The Great Missenden War Memorial is located at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The memorial marks the deaths of local individuals who died fighting in World War I and World War II. It was dedicated on 8 May 1920 by the Bishop of Buckingham, Edward Shaw.

    2.4 km · war memorial in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of Saints Peter and Paul

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church situated in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England.

    2.4 km · church in Great Missenden, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Prestwood

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 32 km · London Stansted (STN), 70 km
  • London → Prestwood
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Prestwood
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Prestwood
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Prestwood

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Prestwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    119 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    279 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    425 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    520 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    556 km

If you know how people move in Prestwood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Prestwood

Prestwood is 31 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.