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RISBOROUGH-PRINCES, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wycombe district, Bucks. The town stands near Icknield-street, under the Chilternhills, ½ a mile N E of the Wycombe and Oxford railway, and 7½ S by W of Aylesbury; had a moated palace of the Black Prince, whence it took the name of Princes; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office‡ under Tring, a railway station, a good inn, a market house, a church, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £55 a year, a British school, charities £34, a weeklymarket on Thursday, and fairs on 6 May and 21 Oct. The church was re-built in the time of Henry VII.; retains a very fine early English window; and has a tower and octagonal spire 100 feet high. A mound on the W side of the churchyard marks the site of the Black Prince's palace; and is thought, by some antiquaries, to have been a Saxon camp. The parish contains also the hamlets of Lacey-Green, Longwick, Loosley-Row, Park-field, and Speen; and comprises 4, 710 acres. Real property, £8, 940. Pop., 2, 392. Houses, 512. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given, by Henry III., to the Earl of Cornwall; reverted to the Crown about 1300; remained with the Crown till the time of Charles I.; and passed to the family of Grubb. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £150.* Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The p. curacy of Lacey-Green is a separate benefice.—The sub-district contains seven parishes. Acres, 15, 660. Pop., 5, 907. Houses, 1, 201.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Wycombe RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Princes Risborough |
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