Conclusions on roads

Prior to 1823 the only road locally was that from Stoke Mandeville to Chepping Wycombe, now known as the B4140. This was a turnpike toll road, but that was only a poor road until taken over as a turnpike in the late seventeen hundreds. All the other "roads" were what we might call tracks, not that much used, as most people used footpaths. The villages did not have roads, they were just clusters of houses.

These "roads" had been surveyed in the early eighteen hundreds and this was used when the Inclosures of Princes Risborough took place in 1823, and most were radically altered.