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The Lee

The Lee is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.

The Lee
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The place

The Lee is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of Great Missenden and 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Wendover. Within the parish is the hamlet of Lee Clump, named for a small group of houses separate from the main village. In 2011 the parish had a population of 698. From 1974 to 2020 it was in Chiltern district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around The Lee

7 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.

    3.5 km · biographical museum in Great Missenden, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wendover Dean Viaduct

    The Wendover Dean Viaduct is a railway viaduct currently under construction that will carry the High Speed 2 railway line across farmland between Wendover and Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. Approval for the viaduct's construction was issued in 2017 via the High Speed Rail Act 2017; its design was publicly revealed two years later.

    2.9 km · bridge in Wendover · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pednor House

    Pednor House is a house near Chartridge parish of Buckinghamshire. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since November 1983.

    2.1 km · house in Chartridge, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.4 km · war memorial in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.4 km · church in Great Missenden, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Elmhurst, Great Missenden

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

    3.2 km · building in Great Missenden, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cholesbury Manor House

    Cholesbury Manor House which is close to the centre of Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, is where the Lord of the manor held his Court periodically between 1599 and 1607. The building dates back to the end of the 16th century.

    3.4 km · house in Cholesbury-cum-St. Leonards, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to The Lee

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 27 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 33 km · London Stansted (STN), 65 km
  • London → The Lee
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → The Lee
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → The Lee
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for The Lee

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 The Lee. 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

    124 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    420 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    519 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    554 km

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

Around it

Next door to The Lee

The Lee is 33 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.