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Princes Risborough

A market town guarding a gap nobody's attacking·Buckinghamshire·South East England

Most people know Princes Risborough as the platform where they changed trains, which undersells it, though not by as much as the locals would like. Someone cut a giant chalk cross into the hill above the town and nobody can agree who or when, and a heritage railway runs steam trains to Chinnor and back for no reason beyond the pleasure of it. Prime ministers have spent their weekends at Chequers, just over the ridge, for a century. The town has never once made a fuss about it, which is the most Princes Risborough thing about Princes Risborough.

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