Chisbridge Cross is a hamlet of cottages and farms, about four kilometres miles northwest of Marlow, on the narrow Marlow to Frieth Road. It also includes the former Finnamore Wood Young Offenders Institute, which closed in the late 1990s and is now a private housing development.

Even though Chisbridge Cross is well inside Buckinghamshire, up until the 1880s it was a detached "island" of Oxfordshire being part of the Oxfordshire parish of Lewkner. Chisbridge Cross did not become part of the country that surrounded it until 1885, when it became part of the Buckinghamshire Parish of Great Marlow.

Slightly to the northwest of Chisbridge Cross is the abandoned village of Ackhampstead, meaning Oak Homestead in old English. Ackhampstead was abandoned as a village in the 1800s, and very little evidence of its existence now remains.

Finnamore Wood

It is said that a phantom coach pulled by a team of phantom horses dashes through Finnamore Wood (now the site of HM Young Offenders Institution) near Chisbridge Cross. It is possible this is the same coach seen in Bovingdon Green as the same road connects the two sites.

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See also - Buckinghamshire - Bovingdon Green - Frieth Road