Mysterious address

[Heatha]

Thank you both. I might have to but the "Silt Road" and read it. I am fairly convinced, from the older map, that I have found Canal Side and the Courts and Yards may be forever lost in the mists of time, I am afraid. One of the comments regarding the Silt Road was " I remember back in the 60′s when they covered the river up down the Oxford Road." That seems to be when it was lost.

[Gadget]

This group might know more:

https://www.highwycombesociety.org.uk/groups/heritage-projects/

[Heatha]

Thank you. I have done so.

[Sc00p]

From the Bucks Herald 1902

[Heatha]

Thank you very much. That is such interesting reading. It helps me imagine the area much better.

[Ann of St Omer]

It did indeed run along what is now called Frogmoor, a road that leads northwards from the Oxford Rd in the town centre to Hughenden. The proof can be found by comparing the names of those listed alongside the "Canal" in the 1851 census, with the 1849 High Wycombe Tithe Map and Apportionments.
The canal would have been formed from the "Hughenden Stream", which still exists, but disappears into a culvert by Morrisons supermarket. It re-emerges opposite the Wycombe Swan theatre, having joined up in the culvert with the River Wye. The river then flows eastwards to Bourne End, where it empties into the River Thames.