Swansea, Glamorgan : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Princes Risborough. You may be able to find further references to Princes Risborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Princes Risborough market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
RISBOROUGH-PRINCES a small town, a parish, and a sub-district Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Princes Risborough.

Place Type of entry Source
Lacy Green ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
LACY-GREEN a chapelry Imperial
Longwick hamlet Bartholomew
LONGWICK a hamlet Imperial
LOOSELEY-ROW a village Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Horsenden 0 2
Whiteleaf 0 2
Looseley Row 0 2
Monks Risborough 0 2
Saunderton 0 2
Longwick 0 2
Lacey Green 0 3
Bledlow 0 2
Great Kimble 0 2
Great Hampden 1 2
Chequers 0 2
Little Kimble 0 2
Bledlow Ridge 0 1
Little Hampden 0 2
Bradenham 1 2
Ellesborough 0 2
Ilmer 0 3
Chinnor 0 2
Aston Sandford 0 2
Radnage 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Princes Risborough. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
PRINCES RISBOROUGH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
RISBOROUGH PRINCES John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.