Descriptions of Wing from a variety of gazetteers, photos of Wing, a lexicon of local words, the odd map – these will all help to evoke the sights and sounds of Wing for you.
Some maps and their keys are particularly important in the understanding of land ownership and tenancy in Wing. The transcriptions below are on this website, the information on the maps like property boundaries are going to be mapped by me onto an open-source modern map (as far as possible) and will appear on the website in due course. I’d love to have more maps of Wing online for you, but unfortunately there are copyright restrictions on just about every one I can lay my hands on. I’ve linked to maps available elsewhere, and included maps I have offline.
Christmas in Wing
The Wing Children's Christmas Party of 1939 took place in Wing Hall. That year's gathering also included children and teachers who had been evacuated from London, and more than 300 children were in attendance. Each child received a tin of sweets and an orange from the Rothschild family. Elsewhere in the newspaper displeasure was expressed...
Words of Wing
A selection of Wing's regional terms