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General
The origin of the Wooburn part of the name is uncertain but it may derive from the Old English words wag and burna meaning a stream with walled banks. The name could also come from woh and burna meaning ‘crooked stream'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the name is recorded as Waborne though earlier, in 1075, it had been referred to as Waburna. In the 2001 Census the population of Wooburn parish was 10,172.
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Oxford Road
In the late 1800s a coach stopped at Beaconsfield to change horses then continue on its journey towards High Wycombe. It was a foggy night and at the bottom of a steep hill at Wooburn Moor the driver lost the road and ended up in a local pond. It is said that everyone on the coach lost their lives. For years afterwards, on the anniversary of the tragedy, the cries of the dying could be heard in the area.
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White Hill
On a misty winter's night in 1936 a lorry driver and his companion were travelling along White Hill (the A40) when a man dressed in a black coat suddenly appeared in front of them. It was too late to stop and they couldn't avoid hitting him. They watched the figure go under the truck, but when they went to look for the body there was nothing to be found. The driver informed the local police and was told, by the officer they talked to, that other people had reported the same thing happening to them on that stretch of road.
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