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6 unusual facts about Wingrave


Aylesbury Vale Council election, 2011

Both UKIP and the Labour party won 2 seats, while independent Peter Cooper retained his seat in Wingrave.

Crafton, Buckinghamshire

The hamlet while in the ecclesiastic parish of Wing, is nearer to Wingrave.

Wingrave

Around the recreation ground and in other parts of the village are many houses and cottages of varying sizes, constructed in Tudor Revival style, erected by Hannah de Rothschild in the 19th century.

In 1998 President Václav Havel, the first post-communist President of the Czech Republic, visited Wingrave to mark its Czech connections.

Why she built a large house barely two miles from her own home Mentmore Towers (one of the largest mansions in Buckinghamshire) can only be the subject of conjecture.

Wingrave Manor (the building), also known as 'The Old Manor House' is a Victorian half timbered pastiche of nearby Ascott House.


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