Places to see in ( Princes Risborough - UK )
Places to see in ( Princes Risborough - UK )
Princes Risborough is an affluent small town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 9 miles south of Aylesbury and 8 miles north west of High Wycombe. Bledlow lies to the west and Monks Risborough to the east. 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 is at West Wycombe. The A4010 road follows this route from West Wycombe through the town and then on to Aylesbury.
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 Lacey Green, 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.
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 Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire and operates as a town council within Wycombe district. The town is overlooked by the Whiteleaf Cross, carved in the chalk of the hillside, though the cross itself is in Monks Risborough.
The name 'Risborough' meant 'brushwood-covered hills' and comes from two Old English words: hrisen, which was an adjective meaning brushwood-covered derived from hris meaning brushwood or scrub, and beorg which meant hill. The plural forms are hrisenan beorgas. The spelling in the various documents where the name is found is, as usual, very variable. In the 13th century it is found as Magna Risberge (Great Risborough), distinguished from Parva (Little) Risberge which was Monks Risborough, and later as Earls Risborough and, finally, when the manor came to be held by Edward Prince of Wales (son of Edward III and later to be known as the Black Prince), as Princes Risborough.
At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Risborough (later known as Princes Risborough) was a royal manor held by the King, having been a village of King Harold before the conquest. It was part of the Hundred of Risborough, which also comprised Bledlow, Horsenden and (Monks) Risborough.
The history of the railways at Princes Risborough is both complicated and interesting. From 1862 it became possible to travel from Princes Risborough to London in a train which started at Thame (later Oxford, when the line was completed) and went on to London Paddington through Princes Risborough, High Wycombe, Bourne End and Maidenhead. These direct routes between Princes Risborough and London were working from 2 April 1906, though at first the trains still ran on to Oxford beyond Risborough. On 5 September 2011 the Chiltern Mainline project went live. This was a £250 million investment and the largest privately led investment in passenger railway infrastructure since before the second world war. This has reduced the time taken by trains between London and Risborough; in the December 2011 timetable trains can take as little as 31 minutes (the majority taking 35 to 40 minutes).
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Trainspotting at Haddenham & Thame Parkway, CML - 10/2/18 [TSE S5E3]
Hi all and welcome to another video from TrainSpotEast where I am at Haddenham & Thame Parkway, where we see services from Chiltern Railways only.
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- Two Chiltern Short Sets
- A train that started at Rowley Regis
Haddenham & Thame Parkway is another brilliant station, the views are great and the frequency is fine, traction improved a bit with the addition of short sets, the vantage points are slightly one sided but shouldn't matter, it is worth doing this one if you haven't done so already, will return there.
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Bledlow Garden & House
Photographs taken on a visit to a beautiful garden in Bledlow. It is the home of ex-UK Foreign Secretary, Peter Carrington. Lord Carrington is the 6th Viscount of Carington.
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Beaconsfield Views, Buckinghamshire, England
Views of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. This video is in development and will soon have more shots of the town as well as a voice over.
COOMBE HILL - THE CHILTERNS // JUNE 2018
A RARE Chiltern Railways moment at Princes Risborough 27/6/09
This class 168 DMU had a fault on the train so it was terminated at Princes Risborough and it went round the old Princes Risborough to Oxford line and reversed back into the old disused bay platform that used to be used by the Chinnor branch back in the steam days. It went round the back of the station to be repaired and to get it out of the way of other working trains. I did not fined out what was wrong with it but It sill ran so it could not have been that bad. And the reason why I call it rare is because it is using track they dont normally use. 27/6/09
Watlington Historic Market Town Oxfordshire
The Charming Market Town of Watlington is near the Ancient Icknield Way.
. Watlington still has a traditional Butchers and even a Fish & Chip Shop. One curious thing is that The main Church is not in the town centre. A local told me it was because Watlington had moved its centre long ago. There are three pubs, The Fat Fox Inn, The hidden in the backstreets Chequers and the Chiltern Facing Carriers Arms.At the heart of Watlington is the Watlington Memorial Club, and hidden behind it a treasure of sports facilities this can be seen in the video.
Watlington Station closed June 1957 is curiously quite far outside town but still exists but is now totally overgrown. You can also see a 270 foot tall triangle cut into the chalk that is believed to have been undertaken in 1764 on the orders of Edward Horne of Greenfield Manor in order to give the impression that the Norman church in St Leonard had a spire, when viewed from his home. There is also now an annual Watlington 10k run for those who don't mind hills!