This year’s parish officers for Wing are Charles Paine and Richard Hedges (overseers), Henry Chas. Adams and W. Underwood (surveyors), and W. Page (constable). #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Editorial in this week's edition calling for an end to corporal punishment - a schoolmaster raised in neighbouring Linslade got five years prison for assaulting one of his pupils down in Devon (broke his skull, and the boy lost his sight). #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

It’s been snowing in Wing! A snowball fight evolved into a melee (in both day- and night-clothes) and ended up in court – two charged with breaking a window, one charged with assault and breaking a lamp, plus multiple counter-charges of assault. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Correspondence to the editor continues on the matter of the Provident Dispensary – this week Rev. P.T. Ouvry of Wing has responded to another letter from the former medical officers that criticised the dispensary’s subscriptions and methods. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

The auction of poles (1,000 larch, spruce fir, ash, alm, some upwards of 15 feet) is only three days away, and it is timber taken from Lord Overstone’s Fox Covert Plantation. Mr A.L. Webster has catalogues available. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

The Leighton Provident Dispensary (covering 13 parishes) was the brainchild of Wing’s Rev. P.T. Ouvry, who acts as secretary, and the Baroness de Rothschild #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

3rd-year pupil teacher Mary Windmill placed Class II while 2nd-year Kate Lambert placed Class III and 1st-year Rispah Bolton Class IV in the recent pupil teachers examinations held at Linslade. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

There is to be an auction of 1,000 fine larch and other poles at the end of the month. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

An elderly drover taking cows from Aylesbury Fair to Heath-and-Reach passed by Wing Mill, had a pint at the Dove, then continued through Ascott Green to Linslade where he was found expired from exposure several days later. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Brickmaker George Truman was sued by the London and North-Western Railway Company for unpaid goods carriage charges, but was able to demonstrate to the judge’s satisfaction that he had in fact paid and the charges were a mistake. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies