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WING (or Wenge) is a parish, 3 miles south-west from the London and North-Western station at Leighton Buzzard, in the union and county court district of Leighton Buzzard, hundred of Cottesloe, rural deanery of Mursley (second portion), archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints is an ancient building, and has been lately restored, under the superintendence of G. G. Scott, Esq.; it is of different periods; some portion of it is considered by Mr. Scott to be Saxon, and it contains some handsome monuments of the Dormer family. The parish registers are complete from 1647. The living is a vicarage, annual value £400, with residence, in the gift of Lord Overstone; the incumbent is the Rev. Peter Thomas Ouvry, M.A. Wing Park is still enclosed, but its mansion, Ascot House, for many years the seat of the Dormers, and inherited from them by the Earls of Chesterfield, has been pulled down. The hamlets of this parish are Ascot, Burcot, Crafton, and Littleworth.
Here is a Parochial school for boys and girls, erected in 1850 by Lord Overstone; also almshouses, called Dormer’s Hospital, founded in 1562 by Dame Dorothy Pelham, for eight men and women, endowed by land and money payments. The other charities in the parish are those of WilIiam Robinson, a perpetual rent-charge on land at Burcot of £2 a year; Lady Carnarvon and William Hoare, arising from the rent of a field of six acres at Burcot, now let for £36 a year; William Dent, £59 New Three per Cent. Aunuities; the proceeds are distributed in clothing to the poor annually; Robert Shepherd, a rent charge of £5 16s. 8d. arising from land in the parish of Eddlesborough, from which £1 a year is paid to the vicar for catechizing the children, 10s. to the vicar of Leighton Buzzard for a sermon on Ascension-Day; the rest is distributed in penny loaves to twenty children, attending the church weekly; there is also the Fuel Allotment Charity, arising from £268 9s. 1d. consols, distributed annually in coals; and the Church Land Charity, which arises from the proceeds of the sale of about three acres of land in the parish of Mentmore; the dividends are paid to the churchwardens; a sum of £12 1s. 4d., arising from a charity at Wingrave, is also distributed among the poor, at the discretion of the trustees. The population in 1861 was 1,504; the acreage is 5,605; rateable value, £9,000.
Parish Clerk, John Windmill.
Parochial School (boys &, girls), Wing, James Cross, mastr
Registrar of Births & Deaths for the District of Wing, William Mortimer, Wing
Wing
| Massey Oliver, esq. | Wing cottage |
| Ouvry Rev. Peter Thos. M.A., J.P. | vicar |
| Welburn Rev. Dale John | curate |
| Attenborough Edwin | farmer |
| Attwood Richard | “Cock” & post office |
| Bandy William | shopkeeper |
| Bedford Joseph | boot & shoe maker |
| Biggs James | farmer |
| Bolton William | carpenter |
| Brown Thomas | farrier |
| Capp Stephen | yeoman |
| Capp Thomas | boot & shoe maker |
| Cleaver George | shopkeeper |
| Coles Henry | shopkeeper |
| Cook Charles | farm baliff to Wm. Cox |
| Denchfield George | carpenter |
| Denchfield Levi | machinist & ironfounder |
| Denchfield Seth | “Royal Oak” |
| Dimmock Thomas | carrier & coal dealer |
| Dolamore John | shopkeeper |
| Foster Henry & Thomas | blacksmiths |
| Fountaine Bernard | farmer |
| Gates John | farmer & cattle dealer, Wing park farm |
| Hardwick Joseph | carpenter |
| Harris Rd. | miller & farmer, Wing mill |
| Hedges Richard | farmer |
| Heley William | maltster, corn dealer & grazier |
| Mallett Thomas | baker |
| Hounslow Henry | fruiterer, & skin & fur dealer |
| Mortimer William | registrar of births & deaths for Wing district |
| Munday William | shopkeeper |
| Newett John | farm baliff to Mrs Jane Woodman, Church farm |
| Paine James | farmer |
| Rickard Bernard | bricklayer |
| Rogers Henry | baker |
| Rogers Joseph | “Dove” |
| Rose George | farmer |
| Sale Thomas Ginger | butcher |
| Sear Joseph | bricklayer |
| Thorne Thomas | shopkeeper |
| Webster Alexander | local agent for the Right Hon. Lord Overstone |
| Windmill Catherine (Miss) & Henry | “Queen’s Head” |
| Windmill John | shopkeeper |
| Worster Thomas | baker |
| Young John | tailor |
Letters through Leighton Buzzard
Ascot
| Brandon Joseph | grazier & blacksmith |
| Hamilton – | bricklayer |
| Hart Thomas | farmer |
| Prentice Martha (Mrs) | farmer |
| Stevens Alfred | grazier |
Letters through Leighton Buzzard which is the nearest money order office
Burcot
| Adams Henry Charles | farmer |
| Biggs Edward | farmer |
| Bone Joseph | sheep dealer |
| Denchfield Hannah (Mrs) | “Six Bells” & shopkeeper |
| Faulkner Joseph | baker |
| Hart Philip | farmer & auctioneer |
| Heley James & Thomas | farmers, corn & oil cake dealers |
| Jennings John | shopkeeper |
| Smith Jane (Mrs) | farmer |
| Valentine Robert | farmer, Burcott ldg |
Letters through Leighton Buzzard which is the nearest money order office
Crafton
| Collins Mary (Mrs) | farmer |
| Markham Charles | master of Baron Rothschild’s breeding stud establishment |
| Willison Robert | farmer |
Letters through Leighton Buzzard which is the nearest money order office
Littleworth
| Dimmock William | carpenter & shopkpr |
| Page William | butcher |
| Rogers Edmund | beer retailer, butcher & shopkeeper |
Letters through Leighton Buzzard which is the nearest money order office