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.

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.

[citation needed] 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.

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 archaeological finds seem to suggest.

[6] It also has two public houses, a social club, an Indian restaurant, a Chinese takeaway which doubles as a fish and chip shop, and a police station.

At the end of the war RAF Wing served as a gateway for tens of thousands of men returning from duty in Europe.

This attracted considerable opposition on environmental and noise nuisance grounds, and the plans were first changed to focus on a coastal site at Maplin Sands in the Thames Estuary and eventually scrapped altogether.

As a permanent celebration of the victory, Buckinghamshire County Council planted a spinney of over 400 trees on a 3-acre site that would have been at the centre of the airport.