Following the news that Buckinghamshire Council have qualified to receive a grant of £11.7m from the Government’s Future High Street Fund to “renew and reshape” High Wycombe town centre, we take a look at how the High Street has developed over the last 1,000 years. The first written description of Wycombe is in the Domesday book, when the town was described as a large village. It might be imagined that this was very much like the village of West Wycombe today, concentrated either side of one main street - the High St. In the embryonic Wycombe there were already six mills powered by the river.