In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wingrave like this:
WINGRAVE, a parish, with W. village and Rowsham hamlet, in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 2 miles NNW of Marston-Gate r. station, and 5½ NE of Aylesbury. It has a post-office under Aylesbury. Acres, 2,600. Real property, £4,145. Pop., 863. Houses, 173. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £120.* Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is early and later English. There are two dissenting chapels, a national school, and charities £30.
Wingrave through time
Wingrave is now part of Aylesbury Vale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Aylesbury Vale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wingrave itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wingrave, in Aylesbury Vale and Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1541
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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