Wing

Wing’s church faced the same threat as Stewkley with the proposed Cublington Airport development. All Saints Church, standing on a rise above the Vale of Aylesbury, retains most of its original Saxon features, including the nave, aisles, west wall, crypt and apse. The roof is covered in medieval figures, many of them playing musical instruments. This remarkable church also contains numerous brasses and monuments, notably to the Dormer family who came to Ascott Hall in the 1520s.

Just east of the village, Ascott (National Trust) was bought in 1874 by Leopold Rothschild who virtually rebuilt the original farmhouse round its timber-framed core. The house contains a superb collection of fine paintings, Oriental porcelain and English and French furniture. The grounds are magnificent too, with specimen trees and shrubs, a herbaceous walk, lily pond, Dutch garden, an evergreen topiary sundial and two fountains, one in bronze, the other in marble, sculpted by the American artist Thomas Waldo Story.