There is a reference in a lease dated 1758 to the White Hart in Heath and Reach. It was then owned, together with property in other parts of the village and in Soulbury [Buckinghamshire], by John Wilkes. He leased the property to John Carpenter. Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service has no other references to this establishment. Maureen Brown in Transactions of Leighton Buzzard and District Archaeological and Historical Society Number 3 (2009) sugegsts that the White Hart may have been somewhere near Shenley Hill Road.

Directories also mention a number of beer retailers in the parish as follows, dates being those of the first and last directories in which they appear:

• Thomas Hines - 1869-1871;
• Thomas Perry - 1869;
• John Robinson (also grocer) - 1853-1854;
• Edward Rogers - 1869;
• Mrs. Ann Vinnell - 1853-1864.