Holmer Green is known as when a manor of Holmer that covered a important a portion of the parish of Little Missenden in the medieval period. A 'Holmer' a share of the title wwhen number one recorded as Holeme in the late 12th century and is probably Anglo Saxon in origin. These are unremarkably thought to derive from either 'mere around the hollow' which would refer to Holmer Pond. But there are certain factors which don't trend lines this theory & a -mer element could actually translate to an old saxon word meaning 'boundary'. A 'Green' a share of the title refers to a big & ancient Green, probably dating from either the 12th or 13th centuries, which used to survive on this text however was reduced to the mere Quaternary demesne (16,000 m²) witharound size in 1854.

A location of the manor house of Holmer remains obscure although local historians McLain-Smith & Wealth keep close at hand suggested its location at the moated site around nearby Colemans Wood in which it develop excavated mediaeval pottery.

A oldest houses come A Old Rookery, Penfold & Hollands Domestic everthing of which probably date from either a early 16th century when the hamlet thrived due to sheep farming.

a village was subjected to a wave of housing development in the period of the 1960s and early 1970s and now has astir 4,500 denizen. Residents however jealously guard a village's independence from either a Wycombe-based urban sprawl next door (a microscopic however important total however refuse to acknowledge High Wycombe when a official postal town).

Maintenance of an independent community has been helped non single per village's yearn historic modems by having a Missendens & Amersham but also per presence in the village of the to the full range of pre-schools, primary and secondary schools, three different Christian denomination (Anglican, Baptist, Methodist) churches, the GP practice, a tooth doctor practice & deuce-ace gin mill. The regular bus company connects Holmer Green to Chesham, Amersham and High Wycombe.

Existence single a short cause from either two Amersham to the east, & High Wycombe in the south-west, the village is ideally placed for commuting into London by fast mainline railway on the Chiltern line which takes some Forty proceedings, or even on the Metropolitan line which is slower.

Consequently, occasionally of the working people commute to London day-to-day. A proportion of city commuters is but somewhat little than numbers of more encompassing villages, & several Holmer Green workers redo microscopic businesses and/or act around the main in Buckinghamshire.