Boomerland Travel Tips.com High Wycombe, ughenden Bucks, H England Head into the Chiltern Hills secret mapping unit, where civilian Hughenden Manor, a National Trust artists, architects and draughtsmen from (NT) property, was the country home of around the country created three Benjamin Disraeli, the man who is said dimensional maps of Germany, landing to have flattered and charmed his way Hughenden on Hitler’s hit list. to pole position, he became known as High Wycombe has been a center the most unlikely Victorian Prime for fine hand crafted furniture for Minster, not once, but twice - he was a centuries and the skill was put to good firm favorite of Queen Victoria’s. use in WW2, when furniture makers The red brick Victorian manor sits on turned their hands to making wooden the brow of a hill in High Wycombe, frames for planes that ran bombing Buckinghamshire, 50 miles or so from missions over Germany, using the maps central London. produced at Hughenden. Highlights of the home include On the lower level a permanent Queen Victoria's dining Chair and the exhibition detailing wartime life at the black silk robe Disraeli wore as manor is included in the price of your Chancellor of the Exchequer. ticket. With a replica air-raid shelter, The house is not grand, it’s maps and a sitting room straight out of somewhere you could imagine yourself the 1940’s - it adds another dimension living. The library, stocked with over to your visit. 4,000 of Disraeli’s books, is cozy and Most NT properties offer a cafe - at inviting just as a library should be, it the time of our visit it was packed by 1pm makes you feel like selecting a book and many items had vanished from the menu taking a seat on the leather sofa. - what we ordered was perfectly fine, A Secret Wartime Mission: Tucked in although the dining room was noisy and the Chiltern hills with woodland walks at odds with the peaceful setting. rightsAll reserved Leave enough time to visit the walled and lovely views over Hughenden Valley, during the Second World War garden and St Michael’s church near the entrance to the manor, where the manor was used by the Air Ministry as a hillside hideaway housing the top- Disraeli is buried..