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|text='''Wing''' is a large village in [[Buckinghamshire]]. It stands on the main A418 road between [[Aylesbury]] and [[Leighton Buzzard]], | |text='''Wing''' is a large village in [[Buckinghamshire]]. It stands on the main A418 road between [[Aylesbury]] and [[Leighton Buzzard]], eight miles north-east of Aylesbury and three miles west of Leighton Buzzard. The village is famous for its remarkable Anglo-Saxon churches, one of the best in Britain, and one of the oldest churches in the country. | ||
Ascott House, a home of the Rothschild family, is situated in the parish. | Ascott House, a home of the Rothschild family, is situated in the parish. | ||
All Saints' Church stands in the heart of the village as it has done for over a thousand years. Much of the church form the outside looks gothic, but these are mediaeval extensions to an Anglo-Saxon structure. The church's oldest part of the church is a polygonal sanctuary at its eastern end suggesting a ninth century date with an undercroft beneath of the same date.}}<noinclude>{{FP data}} | All Saints' Church stands in the heart of the village as it has done for over a thousand years. Much of the church form the outside looks gothic, but these are mediaeval extensions to an Anglo-Saxon structure. The church's oldest part of the church is a polygonal sanctuary at its eastern end suggesting a ninth century date with an undercroft beneath of the same date.}}<noinclude>{{FP data}} | ||
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WingWing is a large village in Buckinghamshire. It stands on the main A418 road between Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard, eight miles north-east of Aylesbury and three miles west of Leighton Buzzard. The village is famous for its remarkable Anglo-Saxon churches, one of the best in Britain, and one of the oldest churches in the country. Ascott House, a home of the Rothschild family, is situated in the parish. All Saints' Church stands in the heart of the village as it has done for over a thousand years. Much of the church form the outside looks gothic, but these are mediaeval extensions to an Anglo-Saxon structure. The church's oldest part of the church is a polygonal sanctuary at its eastern end suggesting a ninth century date with an undercroft beneath of the same date. (Read more) |