page_title: Monks Risborough
section_title: Pigeon House
hierarchical_section_title: Monks Risborough / Various buildings and places of interest / Still existing / Pigeon House
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Curious' Door on the North side of the Pigeon House near the church at Monks Risborough This is a photo of listed building number 1125788.
context_page_description: Monks Risborough is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Buckinghamshire, England, lying between Princes Risborough and Great Kimble. The village lies at the foot of the northern scarp of the Chiltern Hills. It is 8 miles south of the county town of Aylesbury and 9.5 miles north of High Wycombe, on the A4010 road.
  Until 1934 Monks Risborough was also a separate civil parish, but it now forms part of the much enlarged civil parish of Princes Risborough, with the exception of Meadle and Owlswick, which are both now in the civil parish of Longwick-cum-Ilmer.
  The boundaries of the ecclesiastical parish of Monks Risborough are almost the same as the former Manor of Monks Risborough and of the original estate laid out in the 8th or 9th century. References to the 'parish' are therefore to the area covered by the ecclesiastical parish unless otherwise stated.
  The ecclesiastical parish of Monks Risborough includes the hamlets of Meadle, Owlswick, Askett, Cadsden and Whiteleaf.
context_section_description: In the field (now a recreation ground) to the west of the church is a 16th-century pigeon house, where pigeons were bred for food.  It has a curious northern doorway, which may have been brought from elsewhere. There are nesting places ('pigeon holes') for 216 pigeons. In later years it formed part of Place Farm and was used as a shelter for cattle. At the end of the 20th century it was cleaned out, repaired and secured.
caption: The "curious" northern doorway
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