River Wye, Buckinghamshire

Wye
River Wye near Wooburn Industrial Estate
Location
Country	England
Counties	Buckinghamshire
Towns	High Wycombe, Bourne End
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	West Wycombe, Chiltern Hills
• coordinates	51°38′52″N 0°48′45″W / 51.64778°N 0.81250°W / 51.64778; -0.81250
• elevation	94m
Mouth	River Thames
• location	Bourne End
• coordinates	51°34′13″N 0°42′40″W / 51.57028°N 0.71111°W / 51.57028; -0.71111
• elevation	26m
Length	17 km (11 mi)
Discharge
• location	Hedsor
• average	1.00 m3/s (35 cu ft/s)
• minimum	0.25 m3/s (8.8 cu ft/s)25 December 1973
• maximum	4.40 m3/s (155 cu ft/s)25 September 1981
Discharge
• location	High Wycombe
• average	0.31 m3/s (11 cu ft/s)

The River Wye is a river in Buckinghamshire, England. It takes its name from the town of High Wycombe through which it flows, rather than the town being named after the river, as is more commonly the case.^[1]

Around 10.5 miles (16.9 km) in length,^[2] the Wye rises close to West Wycombe village in the Chiltern Hills and flows through High Wycombe before emptying into the River Thames at Bourne End, on the reach above Cookham Lock. In particularly wet years, the source can temporarily change and effectively extend the river by another mile, due to a chalk spring rising above the ground in a field further up the same valley. The River Wye now runs in underground culverts through the centre of High Wycombe.^[3] Pann Mill watermill, at the eastern end of Wycombe, is the last remaining watermill on the river.^[4]