West Wycombe is a small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, famed for its manor houses and its hills.

West Wycombe Park, Caves, Mausoleum and St Lawrence's Church were all constructed in the mid-18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the Dilettanti Society and co-founder of the notorious Hellfire Club.

[3] A Bronze Age settlement is widely believed to have existed here, and research suggests there was a pagan temple in a similar style to Stonehenge.

[5] A Roman settlement later occupied West Wycombe Hill, and local historians believe a temple was constructed here (though the exact site remains unknown).

The site retained religious importance: a church is said to have been erected by St Birinus (who had become the bishop of the West Saxons in AD 634).

Local villagers, impoverished after a series of harvest failures, were paid a shilling per day to tunnel underground to mine chalk.

In 1929 West Wycombe village was put up for sale by the Dashwood family to raise cash following that year's Wall Street crash.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s the caves underwent extensive repairs under the auspices of the Dashwood family and turned into a tourist attraction.

Just off the High Street is the village primary school (Reception to Year 6), a traditional furniture maker and a band hall.

The interior was inspired by the Temple of the Sun at Palmyra; the church tower is topped by a large golden globe which originally contained seating for eight people.