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The Changing Face of Our Pubs
“Myths, Legends and Ghostly Goings On”
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INTRODUCTION THE UNICORN with hot water or milk,
sugar, lemon and
We celebrate the Living History of our Parish in spices; rumbo sounds
this publication focusing on local public houses like much the same
thing based on rum. On another evening
which for many years have served a wide variety in the summer they stayed til past midnight
of residents and visitors. They continue to underpin drinking wine and punch and fell into an
much of the social life of the town. In this booklet, argument about whether Beau Nash, who
helped establish Bath as a fashionable
you will delight in learning some facts and stories
resort, was still alive. “Capt. Hutton and
that bring their past to life. Enjoy the read and Pyke laid Loddington and I a six shilling
maybe stop for a rest in a pub of your choosing. bowl of punch that he was now living, we
having asserted that he was sometime
This booklet has been jointly produced by Leighton dead and Stone laid Loddington the same
Buzzard & District Archaeological & Historical wager of a bottle of wine, which in the
Society and Leighton-Linslade Town Council. The old Unicorn Inn now the Lancer course of the debate they doubled and I
in Lake Street features in the diary of went halves with Loddington in the last
John Salusbury Esq., who was a local bottle.” Sadly for Salusbury, Nash lived
magistrate, and lived a few doors away. until 1762.
The Unicorn, Lake Street, Page 3 His diary for the years 1757 to 1759 In 1727 the inn was described for a fire
Golden Bell, Church Square Page 4 describes meetings of his club, the Civil insurance policy: the house and brewery
Society where the venue for a meeting was all brick and tiled were insured for £300,
The Top Bell, High Street Page 5 chosen by club members in turn and he a huge sum at the time. The yard had a
The Globe, Globe Lane Page 6 often gives details of the evenings spent range of stables on either side and the
Roebuck (now The Oliver & Hare), Page 7 there. He owned the Unicorn and often gate house also had a stable and a privy.
Hockliffe Street chose it for In addition there were wheat barns, bean
“The yard had a
meetings. hovels and a barley barn. Throughout the
Hare Inn, Southcott Village Page 8 range of stables on
He describes C19th the Claridge family owned the inn
Black Lion, High Street Page 9 either side and the
meeting his and ran a wagon service to London twice a
gate house also had a
The Wheatsheaf, North Street Page 10 friend Captain week. At the beginning of the C20th it was
stable and a privy"
The Sun, Lake Street Page 11 Hutton, who advertising itself the perfect place to stay
lived at Heath and Reach, at the Unicorn for cycling tours and for hunting locally.
The Swan, High Street Page 12
on September 19th 1757: “In the afternoon By the 1980s the old inn had become
The Boot Inn, (now Ollie Vees) Page 13 Capt. Hutton, Messrs Snabin and Ashwell a night club with Lake Street the scene
Market Square met me at the Unicorn where we quaffed of late night fighting and drunkeness. It
TACTIC, Hockliffe Street Page 14 punch and rumbo til nine of the clock. I closed and reopened as Shades nightclub
The Bald Buzzard, Hockliffe Street Page 15 spent five shillings and they one shilling and closed again, finally reopening again
apiece”. Punch was wine or spirits mixed as The Lancer family pub.
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GOLDEN BELL poor were only relieved THE TOP BELL Street. Later it belonged
from their misery every to the Leighton Buzzard
five years by this charity. diarist John Salusbury
It seems to have been a Esq. who lived in Lake
pub from the start - one of the early tenants Street. When it was sold in 1861 it had
was listed as an ale seller. On market a large market room, six bedrooms and
days its stable yard was used to parade boasted stabling for 60 horses; the sale
horses which were for sale. By the C19th included the adjoining shop, once part of
the Golden Bell or Bottom Bell as it was the pub.
known in deference to its older cousin at In September 1911, disaster struck. At the
the top of the High Street, seemed to have time it was the Bell Hotel and was owned
been going downhill. It changed landlord and run by the wife of Auguste Francois
every few years and gained something of a Pouchot of St George’s Square London
bad reputation. By June 1875 the landlord who had separated a few years earlier and
Richard Ginger was up before Francis lived there with their son. On September
There cannot be too many pubs formerly Bassett Esq the magistrate on a charge of The Bell Inn can easily lay claim to be the 2nd Mrs Pouchot was running a bath when
owned by a charity for 300 years, but threatening behaviour. Sarah Ann his wife oldest pub in Leighton Buzzard still serving the oil geyser heating the water exploded
Leighton Buzzard’s Golden Bell is one of said his threats to her were such “to cause ales to customers. Its name is recorded as she tried to light it. She was severely
the few. The charity was set up in the will her to go in bodily fear”. over 500 years ago when it’s great wooden burned and treated at a jewellers shop by
of William Duncombe on the 26th March Two weeks later he was before the courts ‘sign of an Inn at ye Bell’ hung over the Dr Spencer Pearson, who lived in Lake
1603. He left the house in Church End again for suffering drunkeness upon his market place. It was called simply The Bell Street and was
and two adjoining cottages in Leighton licensed premises, and further charged for hundreds of years but during the C20th the father of “The second largest
Buzzard, plus a couple of acres of land in with having kept his pub open for the sale it was known as The Top Bell, the Market the children’s building in the town
the common fields to 12 trustees to use of intoxicating liquors after closing time, Tavern and The Cranky Weasel. author Mary with 11 hearths”
the profits for the poor of the parish. The 11pm. Richard Ginger separated from his It was originally larger than today, occupying Norton.
legacy was to be shared with Dunstable wife and moved to London, to “make the both sides of Bell Alley, and in the Hearth The Fire Brigade arrived at the scene and
and four villages-Battlesden, Potsgrove, best of a bad case from a domestic point Tax of 1671 it was the second largest managed to stop the fire spreading to the
Ivinghoe and Ivinghoe Aston. of view”. building in the town with 11 hearths. Despite adjoining shop of Coopers ironmongers
The money was specifically for “the benefit The Licence was transferred to his the number of rooms visitors shared and Mr Spiers, a silversmith - benzoline,
of the deserving and necessitous persons brother Joseph Ginger. Colonel Gilpin chambers, a Quarter Sessions court record gunpowder and other combustibles were
resident in the parish” and was to pay for remarked that the house had been “for from 1683 outlines the case against a stored there. A few days later Mrs Pouchot
clothes, linen, some considerable time notoriously mis- London pickpocket who admitted stealing died from her injuries. A local photographer
"On market days its
bedding, fuel, conducted”. In 1898 the trustees decided money from the breeches pocket of a recorded the scene as crowds watched the
stable yard was used
tools, medical aid to sell the property including the pub, butcher as they slept together in a chamber firemen dousing the flames. Four days later
to parade horses
in sickness, and cottages and the land. The auction was at the Bell. Both men would have been in his photograph was on sale as a postcard
which were for sale"
for loans in times held at the Corn Exchange and the Golden Leighton for the busy market. which was posted out by locals to their
of loss or destitution. Each parish took it in Bell was bought by the Aylesbury Brewery In the C17th it was owned by the Wilkes friends and family telling of the dramatic
turn to receive the money, so Leighton’s Company. family, who built the Almshouses in North event shown in the photo.
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THE GLOBE for the family consisted ROEBUCK a bone setter held
of a parlour and kitchen a clinic there every
downstairs, with four
now The Oliver & Hare week as did a vet.
bedrooms above. Adverts for servants
Adjoining the house was a timber boarded -‘strong girl wanted’ - invited applicants
and tiled stable with a loft over it. Joseph to apply to Mrs Gartside at the Roebuck A
Spiers was a market gardener, and he bath chair was advertised “to Let; without
turned one of the fields on the other side attendant 9d per hour, with attendant
of the canal into an orchard. The Globe’s 1s 3d per hour”. But perhaps the most
remoteness from the town, which is one curious was an advert in the Leighton
of its main attractions today, was the very Buzzard Observer for 9th July 1889
reason why three lads from the North End entitled “Bathing”. Mr W.H.Hopkins of the
of Leighton Buzzard ended up before the Roebuck Inn “begs to announce that for
courts. In September 1883 “three young bathing purposes the Bed of the Ouzel
Before the canal and railway were built celebrities” - in the language of the day - has been Thoroughly Cleansed near the
through Linslade, the small farm that is now were convicted of throwing stones at the Black Bridge and a building erected for
the Globe public house, was surrounded apple trees in Joshua Spiers orchard. They Bathers on the bank thereof. Tickets for
With its windows facing down the High
by lush water meadows running down to managed to bring down “about two pecks the season to be obtained at the above
Street and in the centre of the market
the river Ouzel. The Swinstead family from worth two shillings” before being chased off address.”
place the White Horse Inn of the C17th
Heath and Reach who ran the farm were by the landlord’s son James. The Roebuck public house closed for
was ideally situated. It stood next to The
collar makers, producing bridles and halters The Globe was put up for sale in the late business just a few years ago and today
Peacock, with The Greyhound across
for horses from leather probably produced 1880s, several times failing to find a buyer. the building houses the restaurant of The
the street and the middle row pubs - The
from their cattle, who fed in their pastures In the 1891 census it is not named as a Oliver & Hare.
Cross Keys, the Boot and the Curriers
along the Ouzel valley. public house and 69
"Three young Arms close by.
In May 1800 the Grand Junction Canal year old Joshua Spiers
celebrities were However by the next century its fortunes
was opened through Linslade, cutting the is described only as
convicted of changed. In a fire insurance policy of
farmlands in half, but a bridge was built a market gardener.
throwing stones” 1726 it had changed to Ye Roe Buck, and
over to give them access to the land. The Tom Lawson, born and later in the century it had been divided
Swinsteads continued to own the farm but in bred in Leighton Buzzard, and historian of into three dwellings. It had reopened as a
1823 Joseph Spiers took over the occupancy the town, remembered walking to the Globe pub by 1793 when Edward Walker signed
of the small farmhouse. The passing barges with his parents on a summer evening and his name to the declaration that he would
loaded with local sand and fruit, and bringing sitting outside with a lemonade “a great treat allow no seditious
cheap coal from the midlands must have in those days”. During the last 50 years the
“Adverts for meetings in his
given him the idea for the pub as by 1830 it pub has expanded into the stable, and the
servants -‘strong house.
got its first licence as a beerhouse. meadows have become a car park and filled
girl wanted" During the C19th
In the C19th The Globe had just a taproom with tables for outside summer dining. It is
the publicans at
for serving ale to the bargees and labourers probably more popular now than in all of its
the Roebuck, diversified. Auctions were
who worked in the fields. Accommodation 200 year history.
regularly held at the pub and in its yard;
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THE HARE INN the deer was turned out BLACK LION evidence, and by Mrs
in a field at the rear of Scott. Both defendants
Mr Thomas Birdsey’s were found guilty and
farm house” - this was fined and ordered to
a captured deer brought to the hunt and pay £1.13s to replace a bottle of oil which
then set free to be chased. The great was being carried by Linnell.
and the good were all there including the Many town centre pubs had an all-day
de Rothschilds, the Earl of Ilchester and licence to stay open on market days and
locals like Frederick Bassett, William King, fairs as farmers and their lads would move
Henry Pettit and the lawyer David Willis. from pub to pub making deals, buying and
Luncheon was provided by Mr Birdsey at selling, and
his house, while on the village green in "Many town centre pubs had sampling
front of the Hare “the rustics assembled an all-day licence to stay the ale.
in full force, their numbers augmented by open on market days" This led
the influx of kindred spirits who swarmed to the
to the attraction of a large barrel of beer When in August 1865 George Andrew local joke “Tiddly Tuesday”. The licensee
The Hare Inn at Southcott is a village pub
and bread and cheese ad libitum” paid applied for a licence for “a refreshment of the Greyhound, at the corner of North
which sits facing the green. It was opened
for by de Rothschild. The children were house to be called the Black Lion”, he was Street and Hockliffe Street, was charged
as an ale house in about 1830 and its first
not forgotten: “and charming beyond resurrecting the ghosts of the old Sow and with allowing illegal gambling in his pub.
landlord Henry Woodman was also the
expression to the juvenile population - 300 Pigs and the Bullhead, both inns which Evidence was given of games of bagatelle
village blacksmith. In August 1864 Robert
rolls steeped in treacle”. had been sited on this central part of the and dominoes, played for money, with
Eggleton applied for a spirits licence
High Street. The Sow and Pigs had closed allegations of gin being added to the beer
for the beerhouse, despite presenting a The pub went through a bad patch in
its doors at the end of the C18th having to addle the players. When a witness
petition and stating that his house was late 1893 when the publican Henry Finch
changed its name from the Bullhead, which protested to the magistrate that he was not
over half a mile from other Linslade pubs, was found “very drunk and staggering
was named as early at 1676. Both names too drunk, the reply “you mean I suppose
he was about” on his own premises, swearing
"In February of 1881 the reflect the front row seat which the pub had
refused. and striking at customers. Phipps & Co. that neither of you was so drunk but that
Rothschilds held a deer hunt for the markets and fairs held in the town’s
However the Northampton brewers who leased the you could see the spots on the dominoes”.
starting at Southcott" High Street. Five years later Andrew and
when it Hare from Thomas Birdsey promptly gave On the death of George Andrews in 1890
his new inn were in the Leighton Buzzard
was sold in May 1876 it was described as Finch notice to leave. He was replaced by the pub was sold by auction at the Corn
Observer at the centre of an assault case.
“that old and well known freehold public Jeremiah Francis Scannell who died two Exchange in Lake Street. It was described
house situated in the centre of the village years later at 51 and the pub was then run The trouble at the October 24th Runaway as being “old established and fully licensed
of Southcourt [sic] known by the sign of by his widow Kate. Fair - held every year since 1447 - began situated in the best part of the High Street.”
the Hare” with rich grasslands adjoining, when the victim Thomas Linnell from It had a large yard entered through a
Many of the Southcott farms have been
and it was bought by Thomas Birdsey and Brickhill was employed to sell a horse at covered gateway, with stabling for 16
sold and developed for housing but the
James Tompkin became the landlord. the Fair. During the course of the day, horses, a substantial barn and a pump and
Rothschild Stud remains in the village and
he was threatened and assaulted several well of “excellent water” - highly important
In February of 1881 the Rothschilds held the Hare continues to serve the “rustics”.
times by two men. The whole thing was for the brewing of good ale.
a deer hunt starting at Southcott, “where
witnessed by William Stone, who gave
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THE WHEATSHEAF is not helped by his THE SUN INN they would not allow
signature - a cross; I any gatherings on their
suppose he cannot write. property which might
Secondly the suitability try to subvert or disturb
of the premises is so limited that there is no the government of the country.
lodging for travellers or soldiers on billet, no The Sun Inn had been established at the
stable for a horse, nor yard for carts - in fact bottom end of Lake Street for about 100
no accommodation for an inn, nothing but years at this time; it was a substantial inn
a ‘drink-shop’.” The letter went on to lament with a gated yard, stabling, a large barn
the size of the pub and pointed out that and two cottages and traded on the traffic
the square was already well provided for - making its way from Dunstable up Lake
“crowded with public houses”. Street to Leighton’s market place. At the
Evidence for bad behaviour came before back of the pub was the Sun Close, a
the magistrates in November 1899 when the large grassy field, perhaps used for the
landlady of the Wheatsheaf was hit round the cattle, geese, horses and sheep being
North Square, where today North Street face. James Linney and Charles Collins two It was a cold January day in 1793 when herded to market. It had other uses though
meets Church Street, was once crowded with Leighton labourers were up for assaulting John Hopkins from the Sun Inn, together for entertainment and in 1858 Joseph
inns and taverns to serve travellers coming both the landlady and her customers. The with 31 other inn holders and publicans of Fearn temporarily lost his licence at the
from the north down Watling Street and along report in the Leighton Buzzard Observer was Leighton Buzzard met at the Town Hall in Sun for permitting music and dancing,
Heath Road towards Leighton’s busy market headed ‘North End Rowdyism’. The trouble the market place to discuss the revolution theatrical performances and for harbouring
and High Street. The Wheatsheaf was one started when Collins was in the Wheatsheaf currently raging across France. A few prostitutes.
of a row of pubs, next to the Windmill, the drinking a glass of beer when Linney came days before their meeting the King of However within just a few years the
Leathern Bottle later known as the Buffalo, in and was France Louis XVI had been condemned to merrymaking at the Sun Close became
and the old Kings Arms. The Square marked “The report in the refused a death: what would happen if the revolution an established part of the festivities at
the edge of the town until the common fields Leighton Buzzard Observer beer by Mrs
jumped across the English Channel? the annual town feast held in early June.
were enclosed in 1840’s. The Ashwell Arms was headed Rowdyism in Field as she The government of the day were already A description from the newly published
in Ashwell Street carries the name of the North Square” knew what taking measures to curb would-be Leighton Buzzard Observer in1864
Ashwell family who owned much of the land effect it had upon him”. Collins offered his describes the goings on in the meadow at
revolutionaries by banning meetings.
along the road. glass to Linney who continued to drink thus the rear of the Rising Sun, as it was then
Agreeing that they were all “fully sensible
During the C19th so many pubs and provoking a fight aided by Collins. of the inestimable blessings of peace, called: “A gigantic dramatic booth - the
beerhouses were licensed that the area The landlord William Field appeared and good order and good government” and that Great Model Mammoth Theatre as it was
became known for drunkenness and bad stopped the fight and sent for the police. they viewed with “detestation... seditious called, but be that as it may, our readers
behaviour. The White Lion, a small pub The court was told that the two men were and disaffected persons” intent on rousing have been told enough to give them an
fronting the square, drew this criticism in a well known in the North End, going about in disorder and idea of what sort of entertainments were
letter to the editor of the Leighton Buzzard gangs. Police Sergeant Panter gave evidence corrupting provided at the Leighton Buzzard Club
Observer in 1878: “What has induced "It was a substantial
saying that Collins had been drinking and the minds of Feasts.” A hundred years later the meadow
the magistrates to grant the White Lion a inn with a gated yard,
Linney was drunk. Both men were fined with the people. would host the annual hog-roast at carnival
licence? First the character of the applicant stabling, a large barn
one month’s prison if they did not pay. The publicans time continuing the tradition before the field
and two cottages"
declared that was eventually built over.
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THE SWAN INN Swan sent a coach to
THE BOOT INN to his holy well in the
meet travellers from the village. A number of
train. now Ollie Vee’s local pubs were named
John Bushell and his in celebration of this -
family ran the inn for 70 years from 1805 Soulbury still has one.
and his name is still to be seen above In the mid C19th Mrs Charlotte Gandy
the main entrance. During his time the took over the licence following her
inn was often used as a headquarters husband’s death and during the
during elections and it was from the 1850’s she was brought up before the
balcony above the door that Leighton’s magistrates for selling beer on Sundays
only Member of Parliament Francis before the official time of opening. In
Bassett addressed the 2,000 strong crowd August 1858 her licence was suspended,
following his victory in the 1872 election. but regranted a month later. Calamity
The following years were the Swan’s hey- came to the pub in March 1899 when a
day. With Baron Ferdinard de Rothschild disastrous fire broke out at 5.30 in the
This is one of the less saucy remarks made living in the High Street, royalty, both morning in the adjoining Cross Keys. The
by visitors to the Swan entered in their visitor English and foreign, visited the town local Fire Brigade under Captain Ruggles
book in the early years of the C20th and Old paintings of Leighton Buzzard’s
bringing with them aristocrats and their were on the scene within ten minutes and
using the first letter of each line to spell out market place show a row of ancient timber
entourages. Their purpose was to hunt with brought the flames under control. The
the name. Others include comments such framed buildings in the middle of the
the Rothschild Cross Keys was completely destroyed,
as: “The way was long. The day was hot. road alongside the market hall. This was
“Speak of things you Stag Hounds but rebuilt with a date stone - still to be
The machine ran well. Good lunch! What! Middle Row and three pubs stood next
know, When on through and the Swan seen on the building - recording the fact.
What!” The machine here being an early to each other, The Cross Keys, the Boot
life you go And remember stabling and The Boot was very badly damaged and
motor car. and the Curriers Arms. It is believed that
what we’ve said, Nothing yards were was largely rebuilt, and it is this building
the Cross Keys building had once been
The Swan has always been one of beats the ‘Swan’ Bed.” always full. we see today now Ollie Vee’s.
the hall of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi,
Leighton Buzzard’s foremost inns During the
where in the C15th, local merchants met
right from its early days 400 years Edwardian period the inn was run by Mrs
for their trade meetings and celebration
ago. Standing at the top of the High Kitty Towers, the widow of the last owner.
dinners.
Street looking over the Market Place its It was she who made the Swan such a
commanding position has meant that it desirable venue keeping up very high The Boot was a small alehouse next door
was always at the centre of town life. standards throughout the hotel. to the larger Cross Keys; it was named
after the C13th century Rector of North
A century later it became the posting In 1908 a party of eight visitors from
Marston John
house for the town, the post coach London and Buckinghamshire left this
Schorne who “three pubs stood
carrying the Royal Mail left the Swan every ditty: “We came here for an outing I’m very
was believed to next to each other”
morning for London at 7am. Another post pleased to say, We had a ripping luncheon
have conjured
coach also operated between Oxford and And not too much to pay, We are just a jolly
the devil into a boot. He was venerated as
Cambridge calling at the Swan for lunch. party And we had a jolly time, Well who
a local saint and pilgrimages were made
When the railway came to Linslade the could help it At the Swan, why it’s sublime!”
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TACTIC CENTRE THE BALD BUZZARD Street is now part of
and method used in its a large furniture and
construction. English electrical store, and its
Heritage date it to old stone walls can be
around 1550, before the first Elizabeth seen from the car park.
was queen. Leighton’s local history and In 1810 the turnpike road running from
archaeological society (LBDAHS) have Aylesbury in Bucks to Hockliffe in Beds
been trying to date it more specifically, and was built. It ran down Wing Hill through
perhaps show that it is even earlier than Linslade, crossed the canal and river
1500. bridges and came up through the High
What we do know is that it is part of a Street and into Hockliffe Street. Despite
larger building; the rest of the structure is the narrowness of the road it continued
now Martinis restaurant, but they share on along Hockliffe Road to Eggington and
one long roof. Efforts are being made to finally Hockliffe.
date the woodwork, bricks, wattle and There it connected with Watling Street and
The Changing Face of daub and even old thatch under the Opposite the Tactic Centre is Leighton’s another turnpike to Woburn. The improved
modern tiles. In Benjamin Bevan’s map of newest pub The Bald Buzzard. Taking road surface
our Historic Buildings the town the owner and occupier is given over the premises of a sweet shop it harks “When pubs sold ale, attracted
The timber framed building which sits as George Hart and he is still there in the back to the days when pubs sold ale, played simple games more traffic
alongside the road in Hockliffe Street is 1841 census, when he is 75 years old played simple games and giant television and giant television and visitors
one of the few still standing which survived living with three female servants, one of screens did not drown out conversation. It screens did not drown to the town
the great fire of Leighton Buzzard during whom, Eliza Merrywethers gives her age is part of a run of small shops and houses out conversation” encouraging
the Civil War. It happened in March 1645 as 10 ! Another of the servants Ann Kilben between the yard of the old Roebuck more small
and the details we have are sketchy. But from Northamptonshire is still there ten Inn and the enormous Methodist chapel shops to open up along the street as it left
the extent of the fire can be guessed years later by which time she has become with two adjoining manses on either side the central market area. This continues
at by the huge sum of money the local a ‘dame school mistress’. She perhaps which once stood here. Today, one manse today with the addition of banks and
tradesmen asked Parliament for to help taught children their alphabet while they remains and houses a veterinary surgery. restaurants, and the Bald Buzzard serving
rebuild the town. plaited straw for the hat industry in Luton. An earlier chapel at the rear of Hockliffe locally made ale.
Later William
We do not even know if any money was
Johnson a tailor,
forthcoming from the government of the If you want to know more about pubs visit - The Community Archives at Beds
born in Leighton
day; the Civil War was still raging in some https://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/CommunityHistories/LeightonBuzzard/
Buzzard, lived
parts of the country and Oliver Cromwell’s LicensedPremisesInLeightonBuzzard.aspx
there with his
puritans were in charge of Westminster
family. His widow and “The Old Pubs of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade” on sale from the Leighton
and London. The King would be executed
Sarah was still Buzzard and District Archaeological and Historical Society www.lbdahs.org.uk/
four years later.
there in 1911 at
We do know that the building is a survivor the age of 91. This booklet has been jointly produced by Leighton Buzzard and District
from before 1645 because of the materials Archaeological and Historical Society and Leighton-Linslade Town Council.
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Updated: January 2021
First Published: October 2016
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