Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough is a town in Buckinghamshire, England, concerning 9 miles southern of Aylesbury and also 8 miles north west of High Wycombe. Bledlow lies to the west and Monks Risborough to the eastern. It lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, at the north end of a void 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 then on Aylesbury. Historically it was both an estate as well as an ecclesiastical parish, of the exact same extent as the estate, which comprised the present clerical church of Princes Risborough (leaving out Ilmer) as well as likewise today ecclesiastical church of Lacey Green, which became a separate parish in the 19th century. It was long as well as narrow (a "strip parish"), taking in land listed below the Chiltern scarp, the incline of the scarp itself and likewise land above the scarp expanding right into the Chiltern hills. The manor and also the parish extended from Longwick in the north with Alscot, the town of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row and also Lacey Green to Speen as well as Walters Ash in the south. Since 1934 the civil church of Princes Risborough (previously the like the clerical parish) has actually included the town of Princes Risborough, the town of Monks Risborough (yet not the out-of-the-way components) and also part of Horsenden yet has left out Longwick. It is within the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire as well as runs as a community council within Wycombe district. The town is overlooked by the Whiteleaf Cross, carved in the chalk of the hillside, though the cross itself remains in Monks Risborough.
