Village Husborne Crawley

1945 map of husborne crawley showing towns topography

in 1870s crawley-husborne described parish in woburn district, beds; on bedford , bletchley railway, ¾ mile sw of ridgmount r. station, , 1¾ nne of woburn.

st. james church located on school lane, parish church of st. mary, work on church being dated 13th century. church has tower 3 bays, western tower 6 chiming bells , clock face, , has been subject various changes throughout history, 1 of substantial changes occurring @ around 15th century.

it has nineteenth-century manor house in own grounds, known crawley park. crawley park estate privately owned, , features preserved , listed wooden-framed medieval cottages. village has white horse public house, described substantial corner pub on main road through village, consists of single u-shape room wrapped around central bar counter along outside picnic benches .

other amenities in village include husborne crawley lower school built duke of bedford in 1867, , set ensure poorer families worked on estates, have educated children. husborne crawley has village hall, called reading room , used community meetings, social gatherings , parties.