Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

Description
Princes Risborough, a market-town and a parish in Bucks, 6 1/2 miles E by S from Thame, 8 S from Aylesbury, and 8 NNW from High Wycombe. There is a station on the G.W.R.,at the junction of the Aylesbury and Thame and Oxford branches, about half a mile SW of the town, and a small line also starts from Princes Risborough and passes to Watlington. The town has a post, money order, and telegraph office (S. O.) Area of the parish, 4697 acres; population of the civil parish, 2318; of the ecclesiastical, 1269. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. There is a literary institute and reading-room in the High Street, the gift of Lord Rothschild, which was opened in 1891. A weekly market for corn and cattle is held on Thursday, and fairs are held on 6 May and 21 Oct. There are steam and water flour mills. The church, which dates from the time of Henry VII., is a building of stone and flint, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower, with octagonal spire 100 feet in height. It was enlarged and restored in 1867-68, at a cost of over £2200. The living is a rectory, with Longwick annexed, in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £200 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist chapels; also some useful charities, which are divided between the schools and the poor. Longwick is a hamlet situated 2 miles NW. . It has a flour mill, and Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.