How many parks and green spaces are in Wycombe? 74 public parks
Wycombe has 74 public parks among 484 green space sites. Green space covers 1.5% of the area: about 27 m² per resident, or 3.8 football pitches for every 1,000 people. Less green space per resident than 55% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².
- Green space per resident
- 27 m²
- Less green space than
- 55% of areas
- Football pitches per 1,000 people
- 3.8
Public green space from OS Open Greenspace; golf courses are listed but not counted. Per resident uses Census 2021 population. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. How we calculate this
All house prices in WycombeWhat are the largest parks in Wycombe?
Downley Common is the largest public park in Wycombe, at 24.6 hectares. 18 of the 74 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Downley Common | 24.6 hectares |
| Tom Burt's Hill | 12 hectares |
| Plomer Hill | 7.4 hectares |
| Round Wood | 7.1 hectares |
| Chairborough Road Nature Reserve | 4.2 hectares |
| Ditchfield Common | 3.6 hectares |
| Millennium Park | 3.6 hectares |
| The Green | 2.2 hectares |
| Southend Common | 1.6 hectares |
| Rookery Gardens | 1.1 hectares |
| The Dell | 8,775 m² |
| The Green | 8,635 m² |
| Claymoor Park | 3,024 m² |
| The Rye | 2,419 m² |
| Peace Garden | 965 m² |
| Radnage Common | 863 m² |
| The May Balfour Garden | 845 m² |
| Library Gardens | 570 m² |
What kinds of green space are there in Wycombe?
Playing fields cover the most ground in Wycombe: 188 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Playing fields | 188 hectares · 69 sites |
| Public parks and gardens | 147 hectares · 74 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 67.1 hectares · 42 sites |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 41.5 hectares · 53 sites |
| Cemeteries | 32.2 hectares · 15 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 24.5 hectares · 61 sites |
| Play spaces | 11.2 hectares · 121 sites |
| Tennis courts | 3.4 hectares · 32 sites |
| Bowling greens | 2.1 hectares · 8 sites |
| Golf coursesNot counted | 315 hectares · 9 sites |
Does Wycombe have a lot of green space?
About average. Wycombe has 27 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 40 m² across Buckinghamshire. Less green space per resident than 55% of areas in England and Wales.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| WycombeThis area | 27 m² per resident |
| Buckinghamshire | 40 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 m² per resident |
A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 27 m² for every resident adds up to 3.8 football pitches of parks, playing fields and other public green space for every 1,000 people.
Typical means the middle fifth of areas in England and Wales. The bands split every area we cover into fifths by green space per resident, from Very Low to Very High.
Which parts of Wycombe have the most green space?
Downley has the most green space per resident of the 28 areas of Wycombe, at about 1,450 m² per resident. The labels place each area among every area in England and Wales, in fifths from Very Low to Very High.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| DownleyVery High | 1,450 m² per resident |
| High WycombeVery High | 213 m² per resident |
| FawleyVery High | 167 m² per resident |
| HedsorVery High | 151 m² per resident |
| West WycombeVery High | 109 m² per resident |
| TurvilleVery High | 106 m² per resident |
| Great and Little HampdenVery High | 86 m² per resident |
| Longwick-cum-IlmerVery High | 74 m² per resident |
| Little MarlowVery High | 66 m² per resident |
| HughendenVery High | 63 m² per resident |
| IbstoneHigh | 60 m² per resident |
| Great and Little Kimble cum MarshHigh | 57 m² per resident |
| RadnageHigh | 49 m² per resident |
| HambledenHigh | 48 m² per resident |
| BradenhamHigh | 44 m² per resident |
| Lane EndHigh | 43 m² per resident |
| StokenchurchHigh | 41 m² per resident |
| MarlowTypical | 30 m² per resident |
| EllesboroughTypical | 29 m² per resident |
| Princes RisboroughTypical | 27 m² per resident |
| Lacey GreenTypical | 27 m² per resident |
| Piddington and Wheeler EndLow | 23 m² per resident |
| WooburnLow | 23 m² per resident |
| Bledlow-cum-SaundertonLow | 22 m² per resident |
| High Wycombe Community BoardLow | 19 m² per resident |
| MedmenhamLow | 17 m² per resident |
| Great MarlowVery Low | 10 m² per resident |
| Marlow BottomVery Low | 5 m² per resident |
What else do people ask about Wycombe?
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Where does this data come from?
Price information is from HM Land Registry, location boundaries are from OpenStreetMap, and households and population are from Nomis Census 2021 postcode estimates (21 March 2021). Parks and green space are from OS Open Greenspace. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 7 October 2026 at 03:10 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The Wycombe dataset covers 7,913 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.