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Crossfield Road, PRINCES RISBOROUGH, HP27 0HH

This photo shows the view of Princes Risborough and the surrounding area from The Ridgeway path above Whiteleaf Cross.

This post-war housing estate has some pleasant open spaces of which this one appears to be the largest.

The town viewed from the Brush Hill Nature Reserve at the top of Kop Hill

The School, which is shown on all the current OS maps, has been razed to the ground, and a 90 room care home for older people is under construction on the site. At first I thought this was an illustration of changing population demographics with fewer school children and more elderly people being needed to be provided for, but looking at Buckinghamshire Local Education Authority's formal closure notice for the School it appears that the purpose was to provide a new 360 place infants' school in the grounds of the local junior school, Icknield Junior, in Wellington Avenue, in line with the County Council's policy of amalgamating infant and junior schools where possible because it means fewer changes and more stability for children. From the closure notice it appears that the intention was to close the school with effect from 31 December 2001.

See Image for details. This is the care home under construction, viewed from outside the site gates. The notice board outside the site states "A Housing Solutions development of a 90 room care home for older people built in Partnership with Buckinghamshire County Council and The Fermantle (sic) Trust." It is to be hoped that the building work is better than the spelling! The Fremantle (for it is they) Trust http://www.fremantletrust.co.uk/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F248515&rnd=6030878&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff= is a not-for-profit provider of high quality care and support services, currently employing about 1,500 people.

Carved stone post by the A4010, in parish of Princes Risborough (Wycombe District), Aylesbury Road; Monks Risborough, at junction with Beach Court, half mile North East of town centre, in hedge behind footpath; by electricity pole, on West side of road. Wycombe rough stone post, erected by the Ellesborough to West Wycombe turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- AYLESBURY 7½ WYCOMBE 9 RISBOROUGH ½ Buckinghamshire HER. HER Number: 1431800000 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MBC33073&resourceID=1024 Milestone Society National ID: BU_WYAY09

A view along the row of houses that form a new development of six properties by builders Matthew Homes Ltd in Princes Risborough. The view is from the first storey of the show home (Plot 2) looking northwestwards. As can be seen from the skip and muddy front garden, the site is yet to be completed. The development replaces a single large house previously on the site, called "Longfield".