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Chenies & Wing in Buckinghamshire. Chenies is a village in the very eastern part of south Buckinghamshire, near the border with Hertfordshire. Until the 13th century, the village name was Isenhampstead. There were two villages here, called Isenhampstead Chenies and Isenhampstead Latimers, distinguished by the lords of the manors of those two places. Wing is a large village in Buckinghamshire. The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and this name is suggested by one source to mean 'settlement of Wiwa's family. In the Domesday Book of 1086 Wing was recorded as Witehunge, though previously it was known as Weowungum.

As early as the 7th century there was an abbey near the village at Ascott, that had been built by an unknown royal from the Kingdom of Wessex and given to a Benedictine convent in Angers. The Anglo Saxon church in Wing, dedicated to All Saints, was also constructed at about this time by St Birinus. Ascott is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Wing, within the boundary of the Ascott Estate. Prior to the Norman Conquest there was an abbey at Ascott, that had been given by a royal to a Benedictine convent in Angiers.

In 1415 however, the same yeare as the Battle of Agincourt, the convent was seized by the English church because it belonged to the French and awarded to the Convent of St Mary du Pre, near St. Albans. In the early 16th century the abbey was seized by the Crown and given to Cardinal Wolsey, however not long after it was seized once again in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and given to Lord Robert Dormer. Ascott House was originally a farm house, built in the reign of James I and known as "Ascott Hall".

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	Chenies & Wing in Buckinghamshire. Chenies is a village in the very eastern part of south Buckinghamshire, near the border with Hertfordshire. Until the 13th century, the village name was Isenhampstead. There were two villages here, called Isenhampstead Chenies and Isenhampstead Latimers, distinguished by the lords of the manors of those two places. Wing is a large village in Buckinghamshire. The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and this name is suggested by one source to mean 'settlement of Wiwa's family. In the Domesday Book of 1086 Wing was recorded as Witehunge, though previously it was known as Weowungum.
As early as the 7th century there was an abbey near the village at Ascott, that had been built by an unknown royal from the Kingdom of Wessex and given to a Benedictine convent in Angers. The Anglo Saxon church in Wing, dedicated to All Saints, was also constructed at about this time by St Birinus. Ascott is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Wing, within the boundary of the Ascott Estate. Prior to the Norman Conquest there was an abbey at Ascott, that had been given by a royal to a Benedictine convent in Angiers.