WING, a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from
Leighton-Buzzard, containing 1086 inhabitants. "The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£18. 16. 3., andinthe patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield.
The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a remarkably
fine structure. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. An almshouse for eight poor
persons was founded, in 1596, by Lady Pelham, with an
endowment of £30 per annum, to which Sir William
Stanhope, in 1772, bequeathed an annuity of £6.10. A
Benedictine priory, a cell to the monastery of St. Nicholas
at Angiers in France, was founded at Ascot, in this parish,
by the Empress Maud, which, after the suppression,
came into the possession of Cardinal Wolsey.