page_title: Loudwater, Buckinghamshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Loudwater, Buckinghamshire / History
caption_attribution_description: English: St Peter's parish church, Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, seen from the east
context_page_description: Loudwater is a hamlet in the parish of Chepping Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the valley to the east of High Wycombe, on the A40 London Road.
  Loudwater, Hertfordshire is a private housing estate in Chorleywood which has the same name.
context_section_description: The hamlet name refers to the River Wye nearby, that also flows through High Wycombe.    In manorial records in 1241 the hamlet was referred to as La Ludewatere.
  The brick built St Peter's Church dates from 1788 with a gothic style chancel added in 1903 and further improvements in recent years, including new windows. On the London Road there is a Victorian mansion called Burleighfield House that was once the studio of the stained glass designer Patrick Reyntiens.
  There was once a blotting paper mill in the valley and Loudwater had its own railway station on the Wycombe Railway that opened in 1854 and closed in 1970.
  Today there is little to distinguish the hamlet from the urban sprawl of High Wycombe, though it is signed along the London Road. A 1744 milestone can still be seen and there is also still a traditional village pub 'The Derehams Inn' in Derehams Lane.
caption: St Peter's Church, Loudwater
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