High Wycombe Community Board has 31 public parks among 123 green space sites. Green space covers 6.4% of the area: about 19 m² per resident, or 2.7 football pitches for every 1,000 people. Less green space per resident than 71% of areas in England and Wales, where the typical area has 31 m².
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 High Wycombe Community BoardTom Burt's Hill is the largest public park in High Wycombe Community Board, at 12 hectares. 7 of the 31 public parks have a name.
| Park | Size |
|---|---|
| Tom Burt's Hill | 12 hectares |
| Round Wood | 7.1 hectares |
| Chairborough Road Nature Reserve | 4.2 hectares |
| The Dell | 8,775 m² |
| The Rye | 2,419 m² |
| Peace Garden | 965 m² |
| Library Gardens | 570 m² |
Public parks and gardens cover the most ground in High Wycombe Community Board: 61.5 hectares. Golf courses are shown but left out of the green space total, because most need a membership.
| Type | Area |
|---|---|
| Public parks and gardens | 61.5 hectares · 31 sites |
| Playing fields | 49 hectares · 8 sites |
| Other sports facilities | 18.3 hectares · 15 sites |
| Cemeteries | 10 hectares · 1 site |
| Allotments and community growing spaces | 7.1 hectares · 9 sites |
| Play spaces | 4.8 hectares · 43 sites |
| Churchyards and religious grounds | 3.6 hectares · 11 sites |
| Tennis courts | 7,044 m² · 3 sites |
| Bowling greens | 6,843 m² · 2 sites |
A bit less than most areas. High Wycombe Community Board has 19 m² of green space per resident, against 31 m² in the typical area of England and Wales and 27 m² across Wycombe. Less green space per resident than 71% of areas in England and Wales.
| Area | Per resident |
|---|---|
| High Wycombe Community BoardThis area | 19 m² per resident |
| Wycombe | 27 m² per resident |
| Typical area in England and Wales | 31 m² per resident |
A full-size football pitch is about 7,140 m². 19 m² for every resident adds up to 2.7 football pitches of parks, playing fields and other public green space for every 1,000 people.
Low means the second-lowest 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.
More quick answers on house prices, sales, areas and green space in High Wycombe Community Board.
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 03:55 with the latest Land Registry data (August 2026). The High Wycombe Community Board dataset covers 3,217 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.