Wing, Buckinghamshire :: The British Place Names Website

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Witehunge

Built-Up Area: Wing
Parish/Community: Wing
District/Borough: Aylesbury Vale
County: Buckinghamshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°53'42"N 0°43'10"W
Eastings/Northings: 488212, 222622
OS Grid: SP882226
Mapcode Local: GBR D22.4X6
Mapcode Global: VHDTT.HM0H

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wing within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wing in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wing.-- par. and vil., Bucks, in E. of co.- par., 5703 ac., pop. 1636; vil., 2½ miles SW. of Leighton Buzzard; P.O.; in vicinity is Wing Park, seat.

Wing in the Domesday Book

A village in Cottesloe hundred, in the county of Buckinghamshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Earl Harold
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edward the noble
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Count of Mortain
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £32 in 1066; £31 in 1070; £31 in 1086
- Households: 51 villagers; 20 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 21 men's ploughs (40 plough lands)
- Meadow: 25 ploughs

British Place Names

Wing, Buckinghamshire

Wing is a village in Buckinghamshire

Wing in historic gazetteers

Wing in the Domesday Book