About Lane End

'The Parish contains a doctors surgery, two primary schools, post office, two butchers, mini market, community centre, seven pubs, two village halls, two hair dressers, a dance studio and an astonishing breadth of facilities and activities - from play groups to drama, adult learning to outdoor pursuits, groups for many ages/interests to allotments. This landlocked 'island' parish is twinned with an island in France and has cultural links with Japan.

One of the earlier 'attractors' may well have been the presence of water so high in the Chiltern Hills; the clay that enabled an early factory industry of brick making; the 'bodging' and piece work tradition of out-working that required transportation. All three - and there were many others - encouraged a tradition of non-agricultural employment, in manufacture and in services to travellers and residents alike, to complement an agricultural tradition.

Lane End Parish is located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - including three Conservation Areas and seven Registered Commons - which attracts new residents, businesses and leisure opportunities. Those who live here can work locally or in the Thames Valley, fly from Heathrow or Birmingham on business or pleasure and commute to High Wycombe, London or just about anywhere on our nearby motorway system.'