Missenden

One couple, Beverley and Roger Manton, bought their Georgian house in Great Missenden three years ago, intending to renovate and sell it for a profit to boost their retirement income.

High-speed link derails plans to sell – and a boy's place at school 2011

Schools and families can book visits to the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden and actually stand in the hallowed ground of the Gipsy House garden where Dahl wrote many of his tales.

Roald Dahl Day 2011

Mrs Fletcher, from Great Missenden, near High Wycombe, has demanded to see and listen to the recording, and has questioned the legality of Mr Offen's actions.

CCTV Britain Not a sheep 2009

In Buckinghamshire Gary Hammond, associate director at Hamptons International in Great Missenden, says business has dropped by about 25% since the proposed route was announced.

High-speed link derails plans to sell – and a boy's place at school 2011

For a period of five years—1955–60—Roald and Pat commuted between Great Missenden and New York, with occasional sojourns in Los Angeles if Pat was working there.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

But when Pat was in Great Missenden, he would drive out of the village and call her from a local phone box.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Twenty-one year-old Ophelia revealed how close Stephen had become to the family when she wrote suggesting that he and his girlfriend ought to come over to Great Missenden to write it.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

In mid-March 1954, Sofie Magdalene sent her son details of a tiny cottage that had come on the market on the outskirts of Great Missenden.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Second, he wrote to his family in Buckinghamshire, and asked them to look for a house near the Logsdails in Great Missenden, which he and Pat could rent—or preferably purchase.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Everything in the archive—now housed in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre at Great Missenden, which had opened the previous year—was placed at my disposal.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010