User talk:Waysider1925

Just a note to say that I liked the photos you added of Monks Risborough - particularly of the village and dove cote. Thanks Finereach (talk) 10:52, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I am glad someone saw them! and thanks for your helpful additions. Presumably the school was built under the provisions of the School Building Acts; but do we know who was the moving spirit .. probably the Rector? Waysider1925 (talk) 18:11, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I believe the historic route that runs through Risborough...

...is this one. Though neither are mentioned by name in each other's articles so I don't blame you for taking it out. -- role^player 16:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

In fact this document from the County Council is a guide to walks in the Princes Risborough area and mentions the Icknield Way in Risborough town centre. On page 3 there is a description of the history of the Icknield Way matching the description you took out of the article. -- role^player 16:38, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Not sure if you are referring to the Monks Risborough article. This edit [1] referred and linked to the Icknield Way. It's now further down the article and was unwikilinked, but I have rewikilinked it. Or perhaps you are referring to Princes Risborough. Google maps shows the route clearly if you are interested.

• Lower icknield way [2]

• Monks Risborough Icknield Way [3]

• Princes Risborough / Saunderton Icknield Way (look bottom left where it continues) [4]

Finereach (talk) 22:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I was referring to Princes Risborough. Waysider made an edit to take reference to the historic route out of the article so I reisnerted it with references. -- role^player 00:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

There are a number of points here. Firstly, I do not of course dispute that the Icknield Way is an ancient trackway between East Anglia and the South-West and that it may well have been a trade route in prehistoric times when the trade goods were probably flint tools and pottery. In fact I did not realise that the sentence I took out of the Princes Risborough article was referring to the Icknield Way - I had assumed that it referred to the road through Risborough and I did not believe that that had ever been a route (trading or not) between Cambridge and Dorset.

Secondly, the town of Princes Risborough is not "on" the Icknield Way. The Upper Icknield Way is about 1/4 to 1/2 a mile away and the Lower Icknield Way rather more on the other side of the town. This alone makes it unlikely that the existence of the ancient trackway in the vicinity had anything to do with the siting of the town where it actually is.

Thirdly, if the Icknield Way is meant, there is an anachronism here. The date of the Icknield Way is unknown but must be very early, somewhere between the 4th and 1st millennia B.C. I believe the name has no relation to any historic language and it probably takes us back to one of the unnknown languages being spoken in these islands long before the Romans came here. However the foundation of Princes Risborough as a village or a manor can hardly go back earlier than Anglo-Saxon times, probably between 600 and 800 A.D. The road and the town must be quite independent of each other. It would be appropriate to have a statement somewhere in the body of the article (not in the lead) describing how the Icknield Way passes through the parish and I will hope to add this later.

Fourthly, if one is referring to the road through the town, it does in fact come from West Wycombe through a gap or pass in the Chiltern Hills. Persons wanting to go from North to South or vice versa would soon have found a route which made it unnecessary for them to go up to the top of the hills and down again. That is the road in question (the railway takes the same route). At the northern end other roads would soon have branched out in different directions and the junction would be a natural place for a village to grow. I think that this is mentioned as a salient fact in the siting of the village in several books whichI have seen though the only one which I have to hand at the moment is Pevsner who starts the article on PR: "A small town in a gap in the Chilterns."

For all these reasons I would propose in due course to restore my amendment. I hope this will convince those interested that it is correct.

Waysider1925 (talk) 15:14, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Fine. Looking on a map, you're right - it goes nowhere near the town centre. By the way I remember reading somewhere once (though don't ask me where) that the word Icknield refers to the Iceni.

PS: re bordar/boarder, my apologies. -- role^player 16:10, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

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I do not understand this. When completing the information required on uploading I entered the words "Copyright expired". Has this been deleted? I do not know who created the woodcut in question but it was taken from a book published in 1847 (as is stated in the file information box). Even if the author was only 20 in 1847 and lived to be 100 the copyright would have expired in 1977 Surely that must be all right? The uploaded picture was scanned by me from a photocopy made by me from the 1847 book.

Waysider1925 (talk) 14:23, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I am aware that the cpyright period is now 70 years but it was previously 50 years and if it expired before the new Act was passed it is not revived. In my example even a 70 year peiod would have expired in 1997.

Waysider1925 (talk) 14:45, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I have added more information in the picture file and an US tag. Are they not interested in UK copyrights?

Waysider1925 (talk) 15:25, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Manor House Princes Risborough Bucks from churchyard.jpg

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I have added

. I hope this is what was needed

Waysider1925 (talk) 10:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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I thought I had dealt with this but apparently not. I have tried again to supply the required information.

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