3-078-085 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Aylesbury, visited by the Queen, May 14, 1890. 'The Queen's visit to Waddesdon Manor has allowed the inhabitants of Aylesbury, through which her Majesty passed, to greet the Royal presence with a loyal and cordial welcome. Aylesbury, forty miles north-west of London, connected with the London and North-Western Railway by a branch line, is the county town of Buckinghamshire, pleasantly situated in its famous "Vale," which is one of the finest tracts of meadow and pasture in all England...It is not a large town, having a population of about thirty thousand, nor does it practise any great manufacturing industry; but the market of so rich a rural district has considerable importance...In the neighbourhood of Aylesbury stand mansions and manor-houses of old English gentry, which have much antiquarian and historical interest...to the west, is Dynton Manor House, where Cromwell sojourned in command of the Commonwealth Army while Charles I. was at Oxford, and which was afterwards the hiding-place of one of those who ordered the execution of that King...Another interesting mansion is Chequers Court, an Elizabethan building, in which the sister of Lady Jane Grey was imprisoned two years for marrying an officer of the Queen's Household'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.