Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough is a small town in Buckinghamshire, England, regarding 9 miles southern of Aylesbury and also 8 miles north west of High Wycombe. Bledlow lies to the west as well as Monks Risborough to the east. It exists at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, at the north end of a gap or go through the Chilterns, the south end of which goes to West Wycombe. The A4010 road follows this path from West Wycombe with the town and after that on Aylesbury. Historically it was both an estate and also a clerical parish, of the same level as the estate, which made up the here and now ecclesiastical church of Princes Risborough (excluding Ilmer) as well as additionally the present ecclesiastical parish of Lacey Green, which came to be a separate parish in the 19th century. It was long and slim (a "strip parish"), absorbing land below the Chiltern scarp, the slope of the scarp itself as well as likewise land over the scarp extending into the Chiltern hills. The manor as well as the parish prolonged from Longwick in the north via Alscot, the town of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row and Lacey Green to Speen as well as Walters Ash in the south. Given that 1934 the civil parish of Princes Risborough (previously the same as the clerical parish) has included the community of Princes Risborough, the village of Monks Risborough (but not the distant components) and part of Horsenden but has left out Longwick. It is within the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire and operates as a community council within Wycombe area. The community is neglected by the Whiteleaf Cross, carved in the chalk of the hillside, though the cross itself is in Monks Risborough.
