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Wellington Avenue, PRINCES RISBOROUGH, HP27 9HY

Typical congestion at 3pm on a school day!

Monks Risborough and Princes Risborough were originally separate communities but are now joined together by suburban housing.

A late snowfall covered the Corsican pines and other trees on the north eastern border of the King George V playing field in Princes Risborough.

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".

Princes Risborough expanded significantly between about 1950 and 1980 including these houses here, which probably date from the late 1960s/early 1970s - part of an estate effectively joining Princes Risborough to Monks Risborough.

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 northbound Chiltern Railways train from Princes Risborough heading for Aylesbury is about to cross the pedestrian crossing from Westmead to Alscot Farm.

The dovecote is thought to date from the 16th century, and was originally a building on Place Farm, which was demolished in the 1970s for housing development. Dovecotes were built by landowners to house rock pigeons. The pigeons would breed between April and October and the young birds, called squabs, would be taken when about four weeks old to be cooked and eaten. The design of dovecotes has always tried to appeal to pigeons and to discourage birds of prey, although modifications were sometimes needed to cope with the later threat posed by brown rats which could burrow into dovecotes and attack nests close to the ground. This particular dovecote was constructed of chalk and originally would have had about 200 nestboxes. (Notes loosely transcribed, with thanks, from the nearby information board written by the Princes Risborough Area Heritage Society.) Image is in the background. From a cartographic point of view the dovecote somewhat surprisingly merits its own pale orange "building" on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping.

Single track railway which opened in 1868.