Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough is a village in Buckinghamshire, England, regarding 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 void or pass through the Chilterns, the south end of which goes to West Wycombe. The A4010 road follows this path from West Wycombe with the community and then on Aylesbury. Historically it was both a manor and an ecclesiastical parish, of the same level as the estate, which consisted of the present clerical parish of Princes Risborough (omitting Ilmer) and also the present ecclesiastical church of Lacey Green, which ended up being a different parish in the 19th century. It was long and narrow (a "strip parish"), absorbing land listed below the Chiltern scarp, the slope of the scarp itself as well as likewise land over the scarp expanding into the Chiltern hills. The estate and the parish prolonged from Longwick in the north with Alscot, the town of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row as well as Lacey Green to Speen and Walters Ash in the south. Since 1934 the civil parish of Princes Risborough (formerly the same as the ecclesiastical church) has actually included the town of Princes Risborough, the village of Monks Risborough (however not the out-of-the-way components) and also part of Horsenden however has excluded Longwick. It is within the Wycombe area of Buckinghamshire and runs as a community council within Wycombe district. The town is forgotten by the Whiteleaf Cross, sculpted in the chalk of the hillside, though the cross itself is in Monks Risborough.
