Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, concerning 9 miles southern of Aylesbury and 8 miles north west of High Wycombe. Bledlow exists to the west and also Monks Risborough to the eastern. It lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, at the north end of a gap or pass through the Chilterns, the south end of which goes to West Wycombe. The A4010 road follows this path from West Wycombe via the community and then on to Aylesbury. Historically it was both an estate and an ecclesiastical parish, of the same degree as the manor, which comprised the present ecclesiastical church of Princes Risborough (omitting Ilmer) and additionally the present clerical parish of Lacey Green, which became a separate church in the 19th century. It was long and also slim (a "strip parish"), absorbing land below the Chiltern scarp, the incline of the scarp itself and likewise land over the scarp expanding into the Chiltern hills. The estate as well as the parish expanded from Longwick in the north via Alscot, the town of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row as well as Lacey Green to Speen and Walters Ash in the south. Because 1934 the civil parish of Princes Risborough (formerly the like the ecclesiastical church) has included the town of Princes Risborough, the village of Monks Risborough (yet not the provincial components) as well as part of Horsenden however has left out Longwick. It is within the Wycombe area of Buckinghamshire and also operates as a community council within Wycombe area. The town is overlooked by the Whiteleaf Cross, sculpted in the chalk of the hillside, though the cross itself remains in Monks Risborough.
