Princes Risborough has grown in the past 50 years from a quiet agricultural market village into a busy and predominantly commuter town. The change has been achieved sympathetically by balanced growth around the old heart of the town, and its impact on this outstandingly beautiful area has been minimised.

This book is published on behalf of the princes Risborough Area Heritage Society, formed in 1987.

It lucidly charts the progress of the town from earliest times, through its medieval royal and ecclesiastical associations, epitomised by the Black Prince, to the 19th century upheavals of industrial revolution and agricultural reform, up to the emergence of the modern town in the period after the Second World War.

CONTENTS : Out of the Mist; King's Manor & Abbot's Hold; Enclosure & Development; Charters, Fairs & Markets; Church & Chapel; Law & Order; Rich & Poor; Plague & Pestilence; Highways & Byways; The Railway; The Lion & the Bees; All Work & No Play; Sport & Recreation; The Home Front.

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