Risborough

Risborough, which is connected northward with the Great Central system.

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The Great Central and the Great Western companies jointly own a line passing through Beaconsfield, High Wycombe, and Prince's Risborough, which is connected northward with the Great Central system.

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In a question about stately homes where the answer was the Prime Minister's official weekend residence, Chequers, they said it was in Princes Risborough.

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Surely everyone knows - especially if they grew up there - that Chequers has a postal address in Butlers Cross, not bloody Princes Risborough?

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Musing upon the book as an indisputably fine thing, Brooke listed other grand institutions, including 'Charing Cross Bridge by night, the dancing of Miss Ethel Levey, the Lucretian hexameter, the beer at an inn in Royston, … the sausages at another inn above Princes Risborough, and the Clarendon Press editions of the English poets.'

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Risborough and Wendover, and from a remarkable collection of relics of

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Risborough (2189), Stony Stratford (2353), Wendover (2009) and Winslow

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Prince's Risborough and Wendover, not exceeding 11 m. in length.

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Prince's Risborough, was for many generations the abode of the family of that name, and is still in the possession of descendants of John Hampden, who fell at the battle of Chalgrove in 1643, and is buried in Hampden church.

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Oxford was the only line serving High Wycombe and Prince's Risborough, from which there are branches to Watlington and Aylesbury.

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