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Upper Winchendon

Upper Winchendon or Over Winchendon is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale District of Buckinghamshire, England.

The place

Upper Winchendon or Over Winchendon is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale District of Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Waddesdon and 4.5 miles (7 km) west of Aylesbury. A mid-air collision on 17 November 2017 between a plane and a helicopter just outside the village was referred to by much of the press as the "Waddesdon Manor air incident".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Winchendon

8 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
    Waddesdon Manor

    Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dinton Castle

    Dinton Castle is located just north of the village of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire and was built as an eyecatcher from the Dinton Hall estate, by Sir John Vanhatten in 1769. He used the castle to exhibit his collection of fossils, ammonites, embedded in the limestone walls.

    3.4 km · castle located just north of the village of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel, Waddesdon

    The Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel, is a former Strict Baptist chapel in Waddesdon Hill, near the village of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England. The chapel is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

    1 km · church in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Fleet Marston

    St Mary's Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of the deserted medieval village of Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.7 km · church in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Flint House

    Flint House is a domestic dwelling located on the Waddesdon Estate, Buckinghamshire, England. Designed by architect Charlotte Skene-Catling, of Skene Catling de la Peña and commissioned by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, the house was completed in 2015.

    1.9 km · house in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Nether Winchendon House

    Nether Winchendon House is a manor house in Nether Winchendon, in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed building in Nether Winchendon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Michael and All Angels' Church, Waddesdon

    St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Waddesdon is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.

    2.7 km · church in Waddesdon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dinton Cricket Club Ground

    Oxford Road Cricket Ground is the home of Dinton CC and a cricket ground in Dinton, Buckinghamshire. Although the site has existed as Dinton CC'S ground since the 19th century, the first recorded county fixture here was in 2001, when Buckinghamshire played the Worcestershire Cricket Board in a List-A match in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.

    3.7 km · cricket ground in Dinton, Buckinghamshire · 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 Upper Winchendon

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 50 km · London Stansted (STN), 79 km
Stations
Westcott railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Upper Winchendon
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £7–10
  • London, Essex → Upper Winchendon
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upper Winchendon
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Winchendon

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 Upper Winchendon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAn off-road cycleway follows the route of the A413 and runs to Buckingham.

From Wikivoyage: Winslow (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    129 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    269 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    430 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    501 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    537 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Winchendon

Upper Winchendon is 41 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Waddesdonvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Cuddingtonvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Westcottvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Fleet Marstonvillage in Buckinghamshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Nether Winchendonvillage in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Eythropehamlet in Buckinghamshire, England, UK2.6 km