Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough is a small town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 9 miles southern of Aylesbury and 8 miles north west of High Wycombe. Bledlow lies to the west as well as Monks Risborough to the eastern. It exists at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, at the north end of a void or go through the Chilterns, the south end of which is at West Wycombe. The A4010 road follows this course from West Wycombe through the community and then on to Aylesbury. Historically it was both an estate and an ecclesiastical parish, of the exact same extent as the estate, which made up today clerical parish of Princes Risborough (omitting Ilmer) and likewise the here and now ecclesiastical church of Lacey Green, which came to be a different church in the 19th century. It was long and also narrow (a "strip parish"), taking in land listed below the Chiltern scarp, the slope of the scarp itself and additionally land over the scarp prolonging into the Chiltern hills. The estate and also the parish extended from Longwick in the north through Alscot, the community of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row and also Lacey Green to Speen and Walters Ash in the south. Given that 1934 the civil parish of Princes Risborough (formerly the like the clerical church) has actually consisted of the town of Princes Risborough, the village of Monks Risborough (however not the provincial components) and also part of Horsenden yet has actually left out Longwick. It is within the Wycombe area of Buckinghamshire and runs as a community council within Wycombe area. The town is ignored by the Whiteleaf Cross, sculpted in the chalk of the hillside, though the cross itself remains in Monks Risborough.
