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1145:, a local building material still existing in some buildings particularly at Haddenham and consisting of chalk mud mixed with straw which would set very solid. The roofs may have been partly thatched but part must have been tiled, because a fair number of roofing tiles were found spread over the site. Looking at the building from the church side, the excavator thought that on the left was probably a two-story building which would have been the accommodation reserved for the lord of the manor. The room on the first floor would have been the "great chamber" serving as bedroom and sitting room. The great hall probably extended in front of this part of the building towards the church, but this was not found or excavated. On the right of this room was probably the kitchen and beyond that more living accommodation, perhaps for the steward, with a smaller hall extending in front of it. This was roughly in the centre of the building. The excavator considered whether this might be the great hall but thought it probably too small. Beyond it to the right was a range of single storey rooms. 1071: 883:
the same year the Reeve had been ordered to pay money out of the profits of Risborough to make a new kitchen at the Prince's manor of Byfleet. In 1354, in which year the Prince was at Berkhamsted, a piece of land in the Park was enclosed by the Prince and the Reeve (William Onyot) paid 18 shillings for it. The Prince may well have been there in person that year for the Treasurer of his household was ordered "by command of the Prince himself" to make payment for various things taken for the Prince's use and expended in the Prince's household at Risborough "after verifying that the same are really due". These included a total of 186 gallons of ale and "to John Dayly of Risborough 17 pence for underwood and fuel for the fire".
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walls remained from the old building and these were partially excavated in 1955 before the car park was constructed. The remains of the building lie under the far side of the car park (farthest from the church) extending from north west to south east, parallel with the fence at the end. The whole building was about 150 feet (46 m) long with a minimum width of 15 feet (4.6 m). Most of the remains had been pillaged for building material over the centuries and there was only time for a partial excavation in 1955, with the result that the excavator could only reach provisional conclusions about the nature of the building and the uses of the rooms.
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also be the principal contractor, controlling the other trades, and he could avoid the necessity to employ a mason for stonework if he could produce the classical elements in brick. So in this house we have brick pilasters, one above the other, with capitals and bases shaped in brickwork. The rebuilding seems to have been carried out in two stages, though without a long gap between them. There is a straight joint in the brickwork to the left of the second pilaster on the north side. In front of this the bricks are laid in English bond, but
1229: 1519: 1643: 136: 3331: 25: 664:. The manor had land for 24 ploughs, four of them in the lord's demesne. There were 30 villagers and they together with 12 bordars (cottagers or small holders) had 20 ploughs. There were three slaves. There were two mills, worth 14s 8d a year, meadow for seven ploughteams (generally taken as needing eight oxen each) and woodland sufficient for 1,000 pigs. In total, it paid £47 a year in white silver, less 16d. 519:, which became a separate parish in the 19th century. It was long and narrow (a "strip parish"), taking in land below the Chiltern scarp, the slope of the scarp itself and also land above the scarp extending into the Chiltern hills. The manor and the parish extended from Longwick in the north through Alscot, the town of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row and Lacey Green to Speen and Walters Ash in the south. 159: 872:, a Council was set up to manage on his behalf his various manors and lordships throughout the country. The transactions of this Council were recorded and have been printed and published by the Public Record Office. Many decisions affecting Risborough were made by this Council rather than by the Prince himself. They give us some insight into life at Risborough in the 14th century. 819:, who in 1628 sold it to the City of London in part satisfaction of the large debts of the Crown. Thus, after more than 600 years, the manor's long connection with the Crown of England finally came to an end. Subsequently, the manor was bought and sold in the market and changed hands from time to time, but its later manorial history is only a record of commercial transactions. 1241:
completion of this work that the name was changed to the Manor House. In 1926, later members of the Rothschild family gave the house to the National Trust and it was then further modernised under the direction of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings. It is usually let to a tenant and some rooms can be seen by prior appointment.
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In the south aisle, the window at the east end is of about 1300. The easternmost window in the south wall is "a fine triplet of lancets", "a very remarkable window" and has attached and detached shafts of Purbeck marble making an open arcade of three bays. This is dated to the early 13th century. The
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Steels Bakery was a bakery store next to the Greengrocers. It was then called Speen Bakery for a while until the bakery business closed as a whole in some unknown year. The building then transformed into Top Wok Chinese Buffet and Restaurant that served the community with buffet orders and takeaways
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The Copper Urn Café was next to the archway of the George & Dragon, and was a teenage hangout back in the 20th century. It has since been a cookery shop but the company have relocated to Duke Street, a small lane leading into the High Street and the premises is now run by the Kado Gift Store who
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had brought the classical Renaissance style to England in the early 17th century. His followers took the new classical style into the country, characterised by its symmetry and proportion and such classical elements as pilasters, while wide eaves took the place of a cornice. Often a bricklayer would
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The indications were that the buildings were first erected in the 13th century, perhaps in the reign of Henry III (1207–72), that they were in use throughout the 14th century (Edward II, the Prince of Wales during the reign of Edward III and Richard II) but went out of use at the end of that century
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In the north aisle are four modern windows from the 19th-century rebuilding of this wall, using some old materials. The 14th-century door on the north side was formerly blocked, but now serves as the entrance to the new parish rooms which were built at the start of the 21st century on the north side
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In April 1364, the Reeve had to make provision for a grey courser which was sent to cover the mares at Risborough and in July to pay £10.10s for a black stallion for the same purpose. Also in 1364, the Reeve was to cause the garret over the gate of the Prince's Park to be demolished and pulled down,
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In 1359, Sir Peter de Lacey the Prince's clerk and receiver-general was ordered to provide hay, oats, shoes and litter until further order for two destriers (warhorses) which Sir Baldwin Bottecourt had lent to the Prince to be stallions at Risborough and Cippenham and to pay 3d a day to a groom that
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it could be used by the King to make financial provision for members of the royal family or others whom the King at any point might wish to reward. The current land where the royal manor once stood (now a car park known as The Mount) bares traces of banks and entrenchments, enclosed by a moat and is
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The information in this section comes from Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith: Paddington to Princes Risborough (Middleton Press. 2002) and from A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 13 (Thames & Severn by Rex Christianson, 1981), Volume 9 (The East Midlands by Robin Lelleux,
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service which alternates between High Wycombe and Aylesbury on a quarter-hourly basis (Mondays to Saturdays) and hourly on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Other services include Redline Buses' 130 service between High Wycombe and Aylesbury which operates a quarter-hourly basis (Mondays to Saturdays) and
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events in England, originally running from 1910 to 1925, when it was shut down due to safety concerns. Changes in the law allowed the event to be brought back in 2009 as a celebration of both classic and modern motorsport. The modern event attracts thousands of spectators annually, with over 26,000
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What is now the PR Photos shop building was a small ladies clothes shop called E & H's. As it was a very small shop every thing for sale used to be in one large drawer according to oral history. Next to this small shop is a larger house that was the solicitors, Lightfoot and Lownes. It is still
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The church originally had a tower with a spire above it, probably built in the 15th century, but this spire fell down in 1803, damaging the church and destroying a peal of bells. A new stone spire was built, octagonal in shape, and described in 1862 as covered with galvanised iron. In 1907–08 a new
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In November 1346, John de Alveton was appointed to be steward of the Prince's manors of Watlington and Risborough. In 1347 the keeper of the stud was Richard de Bekenesfield and he was ordered to render tithes due to the Abbot of Notley if there were sufficient foals of the year for the purpose. In
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Much of his adult life was spent on campaign in France, where he won the great victory of Poitiers in 1356. In July 1362, his father (Edward III) made him Prince of Aquitaine and he remained in that province until he returned to England in 1371, probably already a sick man. In 1346, when the Prince
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in Surrey and possibly the manor at Watlington which also belonged to the Black Prince. The manor house and grounds may have been extensive but it was hardly palatial and might be better described as a hunting lodge. The Prince seems never to have spent an extended period of time there. The nearest
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Diesel trains replaced steam locomotives on the main line in 1961. The Down platform at Princes Risborough and the passenger bridge were demolished and there was only a single track through the station from 1968 until 1998. At the same time, Marylebone Station was being threatened with closure and
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The house is first mentioned (as Broke House) in the reign of Elizabeth I in a grant dated 1589, but this was an earlier building, though some parts of it are incorporated in the present house. Arthur Oswald thought that the interior wall parallel to the front outside wall and fireplaces in two of
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In medieval times, from the 13th to the 15th centuries, Manor House was a building on the south western side of the church surrounded by an earthen rampart and a moat, most of the site being now occupied by the Mount car park (the area was formerly known as the Mount). Only the base of some of the
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meeting there. A meeting house was erected in 1707. (The Particular or Peculiar Baptists were closer to Calvinism than the General Baptists) After the present building had been erected in 1804–5, it was extended and re-arranged in 1814. The galleries were enlarged in 1833 and a vestry was added in
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The George & Dragon Pub, was a former Coaching Inn that has existed on the same site for several hundred years. There's an old archway leading from the High Street to the back of the pub where all the old coaches, pony traps and wagons were parked. It has since been sold under new management,
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The house is built of red brick with two storeys and an attic. The frontage has five windows, widely spaced and separated by brick pilasters in two orders corresponding to the ground and first floors. Originally there was a large central attic window of 'Dutch' type (as can be seen in the woodcut
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Most of the remaining walls were 1 foot (30 cm) high or less and of dry-set flint and chalk. They were only 1 foot to 1 foot 6 inches (30 to 46 cm) in width (with offsets) in shallow foundation trenches. The excavator thought that the upper part of the walls were probably
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For the next 40 years and more, Princes Risborough was a busy junction with two large signal boxes and trains coming in from London Marylebone, London Paddington via Beaconsfield, London Paddington via Maidenhead (a few trains still used this route until 1970), Bicester and the North, Aylesbury,
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This story came from a misunderstanding of a transaction in 1671, when he was recorded as purchasing a "fee farm rent" issuing out of the Manor of Princes Risborough. This was a perpetual rentcharge or ground rent secured on the rents and profits of the manor (not the Manor House, which was then
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By the mid-19th century, the house was very dilapidated and part was being used for storing grain. Lord Rothschild bought it in the 1880s and arranged for it to be renovated and put into repair. This work started in 1886, but there is no record of exactly what was done. It was probably after the
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The church was enlarged by the addition of the nave arcades and aisles in the early or mid-13th century The arches at the western end of each arcade were added in the late 13th or early 14th century, those on the south being later. The columns are octagonal with plain chamfered bases and moulded
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The RCHMB in 1912 thought the rebuilding must have been in the early 18th century. But both Arthur Oswald (1933) and Pevsner & Williamson (1994) place it in the middle 17th century, the latter putting it earlier than Oswald, in 1630/50, but the Civil War would have deterred most owners from
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Granny's Pantry was a café next door to the Mr. Ellis' shop and was by far and away the people's most popular place in the town within the 20th century. Having relocated from premises in the Market Square in the mid-1960s, this small café adopted the style of the small Lyons Corner Houses which
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Inside the house the staircase and some of the panelling and fireplaces in the hall and drawing room date from the 17th-century re-building. The oak staircase opens at the back of the hall through a 17th-century arch and ascends two storeys round a square well. Arthur Oswald describes it as of
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The church in its present general form dates from the 13th century. There was an earlier small church, probably just a small chancel and a nave without aisles, which would have been in roughly the same position as the present nave. The church was enlarged and improved from the 13th to the 15th
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By the 14th century, the Manor was known for its Royal stud for breeding horses and hunting. The main purpose of the Prince's visits to Risborough is likely to have been to visit the stud and inspect and/or select stallions with such resounding names as Grisel, Tankarvill, Morel de Salesbirs.
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At the start of the Railway Age, the nearest station was Maidenhead on the main Great Western line. The service from Paddington to Maidenhead started in 1838 and reached Bristol in 1841. In 1846 the Wycombe Railway Company was incorporated and built a single track broad gauge line to connect
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Another building may have been erected on some part of the site at a later date, because there are documentary references to such a building in the reign of Elizabeth I and its remains are said to have been demolished around 1800, but there is no certain information about this.
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The Baptist church, off Bell Street, with its own burial ground, dates from 1804 to 1805. It is built of flint with brick dressings with arched windows and has a hipped slated roof. The interior has galleries on three sides with the original baptistery under one of them.
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Since 1934, the civil parish of Princes Risborough (formerly the same as the ecclesiastical parish) has included the town of Princes Risborough, the village of Monks Risborough (but not the outlying parts) and part of Horsenden but has excluded Longwick. It is within the
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Next to this used to be a fine red brick townhouse with three chimneys on the roof. This was a similar style house to where the Daisy Chain florists is now. However, when this large house was demolished, the site was renovated into three separate shops all owned by the
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as it was reported very weak and ruinous, and to use the timber and other materials to build a lodge near the gate. He was also to flush out the ditches round the manor and to sell as dearly as possible all the large fish caught there, keeping the small fish as stock.
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When all three shops closed, they were sold to different buyers and by the early 21st century, the shops had become the well-beloved The Book Shop, Henley Interiors, Alternative Tools and Art & Office. None of these four shops exist now and The Book Shop is now a
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What is now the Shaw Trust Charity Shop building originally was owned by Mr. George Ellis who had his own furniture and carpet store there. Families would pay weekly installments for products they would buy from Mr. Ellis as money was tight within the 20th century.
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in 1086, the Manor of Risborough was an extensive complex of a royal manor, stud farm, deer park and a large fishery. There most likely was an earlier church on the current site of St Mary's Church today. It was part of the Hundred of Risborough, which also comprised
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charity shop are the well-known florists The Daisy Chain, who used to manage their business further up the High Street and Letsmart Property Management Ltd. Both shops are the style of original townhouses that would've belonged to families back in the 20th century.
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the building was a second Coaching Inn on the High Street with the name Cross Keys Hotel with stables at the back of building which have now been refurbished into the independent Cross Keys House. A small car park is also located at the back of the surgery.
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Brook House). In other words, it was like a financial instrument securing an annual income. He would have bought it as an investment and would have received the income at stated intervals. It is very unlikely that he ever went near Princes Risborough himself.
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they have since relocated to premises on the Longwick Road and continue to produce beds and mattresses. In 1920, Ercol Furniture set up premises in High Wycombe but after 82 years moved to Risborough in 2002 on new premises down Summerleys Road.
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could reach Paddington via Princes Risborough, Wycombe and Maidenhead, but the majority of the through trains ran between Paddington and Oxford. In 1867 the Great Western Railway took over the Wycombe Railway Company. All lines were converted to
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The chancel was rebuilt about 1290 and the two-light window in the north wall is of that date (much restored) with a modern quatrefoil above. The two windows in the south wall of the chancel are probably of about 1340. The east window is modern.
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After the Second World War, and partly due to the employment growth, the town's housing community steadily increased. The new housing estates (known affectionately as the Trees and Fields estates) were built in the 1950s as council houses.
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and hall on the west side of the church (where there is now a car park), which old sources describe as his "palace". To some extent, the manor was laid out on much the same lines as other manor houses (also called "palaces" at the time) like
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on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Princes Risborough is also served by the Risborough Area Community Bus (RACB) which serves the villages surrounding Risborough including Longwick, Monks Risborough, Speen, Bledlow, Bledlow Ridge and Little Kimble.
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For the past 100 years, the parish has also been well known for its independent developments both big and small. The big factory companies located just outside the town that provided much employment to people moving out of London after the
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to High Wycombe and thence to Princes Risborough. The single track line between High Wycombe and Princes Risborough was upgraded to a double track. Because of the gradient the new Up line followed a different route (with a short tunnel at
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The only positive evidence of date was a somewhat worn penny of Edward I, struck at the Bristol mint in 1280–1, which might have been lost at any time up to about 1300. The majority of the pottery found was datable to the 14th century.
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Historically, it was both a manor and an ecclesiastical parish, of the same extent as the manor, which comprised the present ecclesiastical parish of Princes Risborough (excluding Ilmer) and also the present ecclesiastical parish of
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Gillingwaters was a greengrocers next to the Padley and Binns that many people of the town started their career with. The shop is now home to Cast Iron Range Cookers Ltd which provide traditional looking ovens, stoves and hobs.
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Wainwright's Shoe Shop was founded by Albert Wainwright in 1919. In about 1936 the business moved to premises along the Summerleys Road by the station, before moving round the corner to a large retail unit in Station Road before
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RCHM pp. 260–270 The VHCB said that the old tower had only been refaced, but this would have been written before the work was done. The RCHM says clearly that it is all modern, except the inner quoins at the angles joining the
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centuries as described below. By the 19th century, it was in bad condition and was extensively restored and partly rebuilt in 1867–68. The tower and spire were rebuilt in 1907–08 and parish rooms were added in the 21st century.
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Arthur Oswald thought that the entrance doorway and sash windows were probably 18th-century alterations made in Georgian times, but Pevsner and Williamson think they might be part of Lord Rothschild's alterations in 1886.
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Jacobean type but likely to have been made by a country joiner at the time of the Commonwealth or Charles II. Pevsner & Williamson, who call it "spectacular", describe it as made in the mid-17th century but in the
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In the mid-20th century, two sides were rendered with pebble-dash and a new entrance and porch were added in the front. Extensive additions with additional rooms have been made later, adjoining the original building.
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lived in Princes Risborough at Brook House and that he bought the house in 1671. This is not likely to be true. Lely was a wealthy and fashionable London painter (court painter from 1661), very busy, with a house at
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Padley and Binns, was a chemist and optician shop next door to Wainwrights that provided a lot of the patients of the Cross Keys Practice with their prescriptive medicines. To this day it is still a chemist run by
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Records of Buckinghamshire (Journal of the Arechitectural & Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham) Vol.16 (1953–60) pp. 133–1782. A drawing of a tentative reconstruction of the manor is on page
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In the 13th century, it was known as Magna Risberge (Great Risborough) which distinguished it from Parva Risberge (Little Risborough), which is now Monks Risborough. Later it was Earls Risborough because the
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The fact the town has a weekly market has come to define the parish with the words 'A Medieval Market Town since 1376', the very same year the Black Prince (the town's most notable Lord of the Manor) died.
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The Risborough Area Partnership (RAP) is the umbrella organisation for business local government and community groups in Princes Risborough. There are several community events organised across the year .
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For the description of the house see Country Life Vol.74 pp. 229–232 (2 September 1933): 'The Manor House, Princes Risborough, Bucks' by Arthur Oswald with photographs; and also Pevsner & Williamson
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According to VHCB p.265 the arcades date from about 1220 and this was confirmed by RCHM, but Pevsner & Williamson (p.602) considered that the detail is too thin for that date and would put them later
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The history of the Baptists in Princes Risborough began about 1701, when some members of the General Baptist church at Ford (later moved to Cuddington) seceded for doctrinal reasons and established a
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place where he lived for any length of time was Berkhamsted Castle, where he stayed after his marriage to Joan Countess of Kent from November 1361 to January 1362 and occasionally at other times.
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The ecclesiastical parish of Princes Risborough today has approximately the same extent as the former manor and includes various hamlets scattered over the nearby Chiltern Hills. These include
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capitals. There were originally deep solid responds at the eastern end of each arcade (altered to make a narrower additional arch in the 19th century). There are now seven arches on each side.
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originated from war times. This small café was run by Mrs. Morris who always had a loyal staff supporting her. The building's latest incarnation is now the Cinnamon Lounge Indian Restaurant.
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There seems to have been a great storm in 1362, when the Reeve was to allow the Parker to sell all the wood which had fallen in the Park except the great ash, if its value did not exceed £4.
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The house now known as the Manor House stands opposite the east end of the church. It was formerly known as Brook or Brooke House and the name was only changed in the late 19th century.
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More recently, Princes Risborough's outskirt factory premises include Hypnos Beds, who have been granted royal warrants since 1929 were originally located in factory premises near the
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John Summerson: Architecture in Britain 1530–1830 (Pelican History of Art 1st paperback edition based on 5th hardback edition 1970) chapter 10 "Artisan Mannerism 1615–75" pp. 155–170
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in 1960 though the Missenden shop closed in 2008. It is still a family-run business, a great place of employment and has been providing Bucks with their trade for over 100 years.
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The right to hold a weekly market and two yearly fairs was granted by King Henry VIII in 1523. The market was to be held on Wednesdays and the fairs on the eve, day and morrow of the
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The facts about Lely's life come from R.B.Beckett: Lely (London 1951) pp. 14–23 & 27 and Oliver Millar: Sir Peter Lely 1618-80 (National Portrait Gallery, London 1978) pp. 15–22
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The smaller companies were mainly the ones based in the town and some have held the same locations since the early-20th century and continue to be a growing source of employment:
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in the specific layout of an electrical store, groceries and chemist. Like Gillingwaters and Wainwrights it was a great source of teenage and adult employment over the years.
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An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England by Christopher F.Snell (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. HMSO. London 1986)
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Maidenhead to High Wycombe via Cookham and Bourne End. This opened on 1 August 1854 and the line was then continued north to Princes Risborough and Thame en route for Oxford.
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Jabez West (1810–1884), a political reformer and temperance advocate, was born and raised in the town. The drinking fountain in Southwark Park commemorates his work in London.
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VHCB p.260. The original grant was made on 15 July 1523 and is in Letters and Papers Foreign & Domestic Henry VIII, Vol.III, part II. Ed: J S Brewer (London 1867) p.1337
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W.J Hawkins used to be next to the café. The shop was a tobacconist and confectioners. By the early 21st century the shop was then divided, half was a chemist belonging to
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of the lowest class, holding a cottage and some land at the will of the lord of the manor in return for work or services which he was obliged to render on the manor
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were: Molins Tobacco Machinery Company, Forest Products Research Laboratory, Risborough Furniture, Enfield Upholstery, Austin Hoy and Leo Laboratories Ltd.
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since its closure in 1991. This culminated in August 2018 with the re-opening of Platform 4 at Princes Risborough station, connecting Princes Risborough to
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that opened in 1957. It took over secondary education from the nearby Bell Street School (its location was down the hill, and is now retirement flats).
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For the report of the excavation and detailed plans see G.M.Knocker: The Mount, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire Part II, The Excavations
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for her life, subject to the rights of Edmund's widow Margaret, Countess of Cornwall, in one third part for life as part of her dower. King
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RCHMB = Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 1 (1912)
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Before 1066, the land of the manor and village only paid £10 at face value (i.e. without weighing the coins). Furthermore, a burgess of
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from Lipscomb's History of the County of Buckingham (1847)). This was replaced by three dormer windows in the late 19th century.
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The King then granted the manor to his eldest son, Edward Prince of Wales, known later (though not during his lifetime) as the
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The remainder of the area could not be excavated, but trial holes indicated that most of it may have been paved with cobbles.
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held it and it formed part of the dower of his Queen, Anne of Denmark. Later again it was held by Prince Charles, later King
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from Baker Street to Aylesbury in 1892, providing an alternative route between London and Princes Risborough via Aylesbury.
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the bedrooms may come from the Elizabethan house. The house was substantially enlarged and rebuilt in the mid-17th century.
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The manor was in the charge of a steward (not always resident there), but its day-to-day management was in the hands of the
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Pevsner, Nikolaus & Elizabeth Williamson: Buckinghamshire (The Buildings of England – Penguin Books. 2nd edition. 1994)
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and built in 1937–38. Pevsner & Williamson explain that in plan it is a triangle interpenetrating a hexagon, with an
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Maintenance of the branch from Chinnor to the junction with the Thame branch near Princes Risborough was given to the
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Below the windows in the south aisle are four 14th-century recesses with ogee heads which once probably held tombs.
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Domesday Book (text & translation edited by John Morris) Vol 13 Buckinghamshire (Phillimore, Chichester 1978)
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The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant
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from January 1990. In July 1994, the Association was granted a Transport and Works Order under section 6 of the
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granted the Manor of Risborough in 1344 to his eldest son, Edward Prince of Wales, known posthumously as the
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in the following year. He granted it to Lewis de Clifford who held it for his life. When it reverted to King
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hourly on Sundays and Bank Holidays; Red Rose Travel Run A 320 service which serves. as a rail link between
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followed later in 1910. The journey time to London was reduced to between an hour and an hour and a half.
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The Cross Keys Practice, was established at their current premises on the High Street in 1918. Before the
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The Manor House (then Brook House) in the 1840s from Lipscomb's History of the County of Buckingham (1847)
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and his wife, but this grant was surrendered in the same year. Queen Margaret died in 1318. In 1327, when
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but when he was murdered before his father died, Richard ordered his estates be passed to his second son,
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Register of Edward the Black Prince, preserved in the Public Record Office '4 volumes' (H.M.S.O. 1930–33)
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In 1765, the Earl of Buckingham gave the rectory of Princes Risborough to the manor at Nutley Abbey in
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and entering the parish name and following the link from the church; then click on "About the parish".
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for the town in the early 21st century. Top Wok too closed and turned into Domino's Pizza soon after.
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and had the right to sell his land, though it was said that he served the sheriff. At the time of the
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Barber, Richard: Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine 'A biography of the Black Prince' (London 1978)
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visitors in 2015, and has earned over £600,000 for charity to date. Celebrity patrons have included
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Inside the church, there are two painted ceramic statues, of St Teresa of Lisieux and St Joseph, by
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On the death of the Black Prince, the manor passed to his son, Richard of Bordeaux, who became King
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Payne, Mike & Angela: ‘The Voices of Princes Risborough’ (The History Press, Cheltenham. 2009)
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All information on the manorial history comes from VHCB where full references can be found
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during peak hours; and Z&S Transport Run The 113 which serves between Risborough and
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as its terminus. A new line, built by the Great Western Railway, ran from Paddington via
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http://www.princesrisboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk/_UserFiles/Files/History/PR%20History.pdf
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Princes Risborough has been featured several times in films and television series (e.g.
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The history of the railways at Princes Risborough is both complicated and interesting.
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Princes Risborough has a recreation ground on the left of the Aylesbury Road, known as
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originally believed to have been a Saxon encampment. The land was then held shortly by
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For his life, see Barber. Significantly, this book does not mention Risborough at all.
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arranged to join with the Great Western to construct a new route to London and built
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This domed church, on the corner of the Aylesbury Road and New Road, was designed by
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which meant hills. The spelling varies in the documents in which the name is found.
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succeeded to the throne at the age of fifteen, he granted the manor to his mother,
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James Joseph Shearman: History & Topography of Bucks (London. 1862) pp. 192–3
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with a limited service at weekends as part of the heritage railway's operations.
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to the Chiltern Hills, Princes Risborough has become an ideal place to view this
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gave the reversion (subject to these life interests) to his unpopular favourite,
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Mawer, A. and Stenton, F.M: The Place Names of Buckinghamshire (Cambridge, 1925)
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who granted Risborough's royal manor as one of 48 Buckinghamshire manors to the
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follows this route from West Wycombe through the town and then on to Aylesbury.
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has its headquarters at Windsor Playing Fields. Currently the side play in the
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other window in this aisle (on the western side of the door) is of about 1340.
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is used towards the back, indicating that this part was built a little later.
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Orders for the payment of money in the register are addressed to the reeve
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At the end of the south wall of the south aisle, next to the altar, are a
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both before and after the conquest, of which 20 hides related to the
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Payne, Mike and Angela (2009). "The Voices of Princes Risborough",
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The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway (Extension) Order 1995
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See Mawer & Stenton: Place Names of Buckinghamshire pp. 170–1
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for several years almost all trains ran to and from Paddington.
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for her services during his father's reign. The King's brother,
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Detail of the capital of the pilaster (17th century brickwork)
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tower and spire were built from the foundations, designed by
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between 1242 and 1336. At some point, following the death of
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It was still Brook House in 1847. See Lipscomb Vol.2 p. 484
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the offices of the now independent Lightfoot Solicitors.
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https://www.ercol.com/en-gb/about/ercol-timeline/timeline/
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granted it to his half-sister, the Princess (later Queen)
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The 1841 census lists the population of the town as 926.
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The Roman Catholic Church of St Teresa of the Child Jesus
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between 1868 and 1870. In 1872 a new line, built by the
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A photo taken at the Kop Hill Climb, 22 September 2013.
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The Prince died at Westminster on 8 June 1376 aged 46.
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1984) and Volume 3 (Greater London by H.P.White, 1971)
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grew up in the town and formed the band in Risborough.
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but grew up and went to school in Princes Risborough.
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Bordar is the English translation of the Latin word
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Television programmes and local news is provided by
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The church from the north west, showing parish rooms
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In 1085, 680:and formed part of the lands of the new King, 667: 4203: 3116: 2318: 2316: 1749:From 1862, it became possible to travel from 1513: 542:, the landmark is located within the area of 4616:National Trust properties in Buckinghamshire 3096:The Princes Risborough town council website. 2623:The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge 1318:have other premises within the High Street. 1091:in the middle of each side of the triangle. 1437:Lower North Dean, North Dean, Redland End, 1276:Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 632:an amount left blank. 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Retrieved 2019-12-01. 2058:Neighbourhood Statistics 2014: 1942:BBC Three Counties Radio 1600:English indie-rock band 4560:Schools (Milton Keynes) 4241:Buckinghamshire Council 3177:Buckingham Constituency 3020:. Retrieved 2020-02-19. 3008:. Retrieved 2020-02-19. 2996:. Retrieved 2020-02-19. 2653:www.londonremembers.com 2153:George Edward Cokayne, 1526:lived from 1937 to 1938 1249:Several books say that 587:Edward the Black Prince 4131:Wycombe Rural District 3353:Bledlow-cum-Saunderton 3167:Aylesbury Constituency 2376:VHCB p.265 RCHM p.270 2247:Register vol.iv p. 330 2054:"Town population 2011" 1890: 1647: 1527: 1441:and Upper North Dean. 1233: 1225: 1205: 1179: 1075: 915: 423:51.723978°N 0.834418°W 298:Postcode district 228:Ceremonial county 210:Unitary authority 4126:Marlow Urban District 2746:. The Daily Telegraph 2719:. The Daily Telegraph 2649:"Jabez West Fountain" 2301:VHCB p. 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Princes Risborough is located in Buckinghamshire
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