WING, a parish, with a village, in Uppingham district, Rutland; ¾ mile SSE of Manton r. station, and 3 NE by Noof Uppingham. Post town, Uppingbam. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £2,823. Pop., 342. Houses, 75. The manor was anciently called Wenge, was long held by the Montfords, and belongs now to the Marquis of Exeter. A very ancient maze is near the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £340.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))