High Wycombe, (previously Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe as late as 1911) is a town in South Buckinghamshire, England. It is 29 miles west-north-west of London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town. According to the 2001 census the High Wycombe urban area had a population of 118,229, making it the largest town in the shire county of Buckinghamshire now that Milton Keynes is a unitary authority, and the second largest in the ceremonial county.