The station was built in 1912, six years after passenger services commenced on the Great Western/Great Central Joint line from Grendon Underwood junction to Marylebone via High Wycombe. Its original name was "Denham Golf Club Platform", and it was built to provide access to the adjacent Golf Club. It became a halt between the wars (and was still known by this title in the mid-sixties), at which time the platforms were lengthened. The original Up platform was on the London side of the road bridge, and made of wood, with an access path debouching onto the track leading to the Golf Club. In the 1950s a new Up platform was built in concrete on the Wycombe side of the road bridge, opposite the Down. The Down platform was also rebuilt in concrete. The station's present name has no suffix.