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Place Farm Way, PRINCES RISBOROUGH, HP27 9JY

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.

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

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.

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

Monks Risborough is the oldest recorded parish in England. Oldest parts of this present building date back to around 1150, structurally the Church hasn't changed much since around 1470.

The parish celebrated its 1100th anniversary in 2003, with its boundaries having been witnessed by royalty and bishops in a charter dated 903. The Church's website is here http://www.stdunstanschurch.com/ There is a comprehensive description of the church in the British History website here http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62768

The main Aylesbury Road used to run in front of these houses but was moved away to the right in a road widening scheme, leaving a narrow slice of green, visible on the right. The white building is the former Nag's Head public house. All these buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are within the Monks Risborough Conservation Area.

Burton Lane contains the oldest residential buildings in Monks Risborough. The house on the left is timber framed with brick infill under a tiled roof and dates from around 1600. It is Grade II listed.

Burton Lane contains the oldest residential buildings in Monks Risborough. On the right are three cottages under a continuous thatched roof. The middle one dates from the 17th century, is timber framed, and has a section of the wattle and daub construction exposed behind a glass panel, visible over the door. The two outer cottages are later, and are built of brick and flint but all three are Grade II listed.

St Dunstan Church overlooking St Dunstan's Park on Mill Lane