Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire

Description
Monks Risborough, a village and a parish in Bucks, 1 1/2 mile NE from Princes Risborough station on the Wycoinbe, Thame, and Oxford branch of the G.W.R., 5 miles S from Wendover, and 7 S from Aylesborough. Post town, Tring; money order and telegraph office, Princes Rishorough. Acreage, 2873; population, 810. The manor belongs to the Earl of Buckinghamshire. The church, which was restored in 1863-64 under the direction of the late G. E. Street, R.A., is a beautiful building of flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. It has a good rood-screen of the 14th century, a Norman font, and brasses of 1431, 1460, and 1520. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £484 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. Near the church are traces of a stone pigeon-house and some fishponds which formerly belonged to an ancient monastery. There are some small charities. Ashett, Cadsdean, Meadle, Owlswich, and. Whiteleaf are adjacent hamlets. At Whiteleaf there is an ancient cross cut 2 or 3 feet deep in the side of a hill. The stem is about 100 feet long by 50 broad, the arms measure 70 feet in length by 12 in breadth, and the stem rises from a triangular base 340 feet wide. It is believed to commemorate a victory of Edward the Elder over the Danes in 910. Monks Sherbome. See SHEBBORNE, MONK. Monksthorpe, a hamlet in Great Steeping parish, Lincolnshire, 3f miles SE of Spilsby. Monkston. See MONXTON.