Monument record MBC45331 - Medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, Wing parish.

Scattered blocks of medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, remnants of the former common open-field system, is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in the very northern tip of Wing parish and centred at SP 87268 25315, four blocks of ridge and furrow cultivation blocks are visible as extant earthworks on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s. Aerial photographs taken in 2019 and recent remote sensing data indicate that only one of the blocks have been plough-levelled, possibly by changes to post-war agricultural regimes, the remainder surviving earthworks being centred around Ash Farm. The linear earthwork furlong bank is part of a much more extensive system of land division boundaries that extends eastwards into Bedfordshire and East Cambridgeshire. Whilst many of these features originate in the medieval period with the establishment of the common field cultivation system, some of the boundary banks may have earlier origins. They remain visible chiefly as extant, sinuous, parallel, plough-levelled earthwork sections on recent lidar remote sensing data, with the primary alignment roughly SW-NE (1-5).

Contiguous blocks of medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, remnants of the former common open-field system, is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located throughout Wing parish, which was inclosed in 1797and centred at SP 87438 22650, the ridge and furrow cultivation earthworks extend right across the parish. The cultivation earthworks are visible on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s but, on aerial photographs taken in 2022 and on recent remote sensing data, many of the cultivation blocks have since been plough levelled and are no longer visible, or remain visible only as cropmarks (6-51).