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High Wycombe Study Centre

High Wycombe Study Centre is with the library in Eden shopping centre.

5 Eden Place, High Wycombe HP11 2DH
Telephone: 0845 2303232 Email: lib-ref@buckscc.gov.uk

Opening hours
Days Hours 
MondayClosed
Tuesday9.30am - 8pm
Wednesday9.30am - 5.30pm
Thursday9.30am - 8pm
Friday9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday9.30am - 5.30pm
Sunday11am - 5pm
Public holidaysClosed

Public transport - Bus station is next to Eden shopping centre and railway station is roughly 8 minutes walk . 

  • Parking - public car parks at Eden shopping centre are closest.
  • Access - Study Centre is on second floor and there are lifts.

Facilities

General

  • Enquiry service
  • Large collection of general reference materials
  • National telephone and postcode directories
  • Street atlases
  • Periodicals and newspapers
  • Official statistics
  • Photocopier
  • Microfilm and microfiche reader-printers
  • Fax
  • Computers providing access to the internet and word-processing
  • 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
  • Access to British Standards Online
  • 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: localstudies@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

For more information call 0845 2303132 or email lib-ref@buckscc.gov.uk

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