Families. Absentee Property Owners

Before 1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough many people with money took out copyhold (leased) properties from the Manor of Princes Risborough. They sub-let them, making their own income as letting agents. The Manor would need to approve the new, sub-let tenants. These same agents sometimes gave mortgages to their sub-tenants if they were ambitious and wished to improve them. The "agents" never lived here.

After 1823 the Common Land of the Manor - the actual Common of Princes Risborough, the Open Strip Corn Fields and the Parish Woodland all went under individual ownership or if leased under the name of the occupant, with the landlord still absent.

The Lord of the Manor was the first absentee landlord, but there were others who had purchased property from him when he was in financial difficulty. L.G.H.Cavendish for one and