Wing, Buckinghamshire

Description
Wing, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 2 1/2 miles SW of Leighton Buzzard station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leighton Buzzard. The parish includes the hamlets of Ascott, Burcot, Crafton, Littleworth, and Cottesloe, all of which are noticed separately, and comprises 5703 acres; population, 1799. The manor belongs to Lord Wantage. Wing Lodge is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £320 with residence, in the gift of Lord Wantage. The church is an ancient and interesting building of stone in mixed styles, partly Saxon and partly of the Norman, Early Decorated, and Perpendicular periods. It consists of chancel, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower, and contains a Perpendicular font, some 15th-century brasses, and some fine ancient tombs and memorials of the Danes family, and the Earls of Carnarvon and Chesterfield. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, endowed almshouses for eight poor persons, and several useful charities. An alien priory was at Ascott.