High Wycombe Study Centre

Facilities

General

• Enquiry service
• Large collection of general reference materials
• National telephone and postcode directories
• Street atlases
• Periodicals and newspapers
• Official statistics
• Photocopier and scanner
• Microfilm and microfiche reader-printers
• Fax
• Computers providing access to the internet, word processing and scanning
• BucksKey (online reference library)
• Electronic databases

Business Library

• Collection of business and management books for loan
• Company and market research databases, including MINT (Bureau van Dijk), Companies House and Data Monitor
• Company directories

Careers and Education

• Books on jobs, training and careers
• UCAS Guide and UK university prospectuses (undergraduate and postgraduate)
• Evening class brochures

Law

• Lexis database of legislation, cases, forms & precedents and legal commentary
• Collection of books and guides to basic law
• Directories of Solicitors and legal advisors

Local and family history

Please contact the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies in Aylesbury and ask for information on High Wycombe.
Telephone: 01296 382250 Email: archives@buckscc.gov.uk 

• GRO index to civil registration for England and Wales 1837 - 2004
• IGI for the United Kingdom
• Parish Registers
• Street Directories for High Wycombe 1875, 1905,1909,1922, 1933,1952
• Bucks Free Press on microfilm from 1856
• Large collection of maps from 1875
• National Burials Index 2nd edition
• Access to Ancestry.com free to use in the library
• Buckinghamshire Family History Society Names Index
• Records of Bucks  compiled by Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society from 1858
• Kelly's Directories for Bucks 1854 - 1939
• SWOP (Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs) website -  free to use in the library
• Coltman series of family and local history resources
• The Herbert Green collection of nearly 700 historical documents relating to High Wycombe