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Wing, known in antiquated times as Wyng, is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is on the main A418 road between Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard. It is about north east of Aylesbury, west of Leighton Buzzard, and south of Milton Keynes. ==History== The Domesday Book of 1086 records the toponym as ''Witehunge''. The name occurs in Old English ''circa'' 966–975 as ''Weowungum'' (dative plural case). It could mean: *"Wiwa's sons or people". *"The dwellers at, or devotees of, a heathen temple." The first syllables of the names of the nearby village of Wingrave and the nearby hamlet of Wingbury have the same etymology. The remains of the temple referred to may be under the Anglo-Saxon Church of England parish church of All Saints. The BBC programme ''Meet the Ancestors'' came to Wing in 2000 and recreated the face of an Anglo-Saxon girl found buried in the old graveyard. Wing has the oldest continuously used religious site in the country, with evidence showing the site has had religious use going back well over 1300 years. The Anglo-Saxon origin of All Saints' parish church makes it one of the oldest churches in England. An ancient track, part of the pre-historic Icknield Way linking Oxford with Cambridge, once passed through the village. This was used in the Middle Ages and led to an increase in the village's size, though with the advent of modern roads and motorways this is less used today. As early as the 7th century there was an abbey near the village at Ascott, that had been built by an unknown member of the House of Wessex royal family and given to a Benedictine convent in Angers. The Anglo-Saxon church in Wing, dedicated to All Saints, was also built at about this time for St Birinus,〔(All Saints Church history )〕 but evidence found in the 15th century during extensive renovations on the church suggest a Roman structure had stood on this site beforehand.〔(Britain Express website )〕 It is unusual among religious buildings of this age for the church and abbey to have been built apart, it was normal for them to be constructed within the same complex of buildings. One possible explanation for this is that the church was built on a pre-existing religious site, which the evidence in the village's name and in the aforementioned archeological finds seem to suggest. The church contains a number of fine monuments, including the ''"purest Renaissance monument of the mid-16th century"'' to Sir Robert Dormer (died 1552), and a wall monument attributed to Louis-François Roubiliac. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wing, Buckinghamshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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