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Westmead, Monks Risborough
Monks Risborough, an old village, is now mostly a northern suburb of its much larger partner, Princes Risborough.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 18 Jun 2015
0.04 miles
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Monks Risborough: Mill Lane railway bridge
The bridge carries the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury line over Mill Lane.
Image is to the right.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 30 Mar 2008
0.12 miles
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Dunsmore Ride, Monks Risborough
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.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 24 Oct 2018
0.13 miles
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Monks Risborough Dovecote and Church
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.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 30 Mar 2008
0.13 miles
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Monks Risborough: Railway line from Princes Risborough
A northbound Chiltern Railways train from Princes Risborough heading for Aylesbury is about to cross the pedestrian crossing from Westmead to Alscot Farm.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 30 Mar 2008
0.14 miles
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Monks Risborough railway station
One of two intermediate stations on the line between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury (the other is Little Kimble), this is a station with the most rudimentary of facilities, built in the 1990s. The original station here was opened in 1929 at the far end of the current platform as "Monks Risborough and Whiteleaf Halt". However, despite the simplicity of the station, and, reading the 2007/8 winter timetable, you can catch a rush-hour train direct to London Marylebone from here, the Chiltern Railways' 0741 from Aylesbury arriving at 0835. In the evening the 1745 from London Marylebone bound for Aylesbury arrives here, without any changes being necessary, at 1838.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 30 Mar 2008
0.17 miles
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Monks Risborough Station
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 19 Aug 2009
0.17 miles
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Monks Risborough: Footpath to Alscot Farm and Chadwell Hill
Viewed from the pedestrian crossing over the railway at the rear of Westmead.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 30 Mar 2008
0.18 miles
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On Monks Risborough station
Chiltern Railways run services from Monks Risborough to Princes Risborough and Aylesbury and direct services to London Marylebone at peak times. It must have a very small catchment area - there is no car park and no obvious use of unrestricted parking in the adjacent road. Users must presumably walk or bus to the station. This is looking towards Princes Risborough.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 27 Mar 2015
0.18 miles
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Shortborough Avenue, Monks Risborough
Monks Risborough and Princes Risborough were originally separate communities but are now joined together by suburban housing.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 19 Dec 2020
0.19 miles