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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 is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wingrave itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wingrave in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1541
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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