Haycock Beerhouse, Turnpike Road, Husborne Crawley [formerly Greyhound]

This public house| was previously known as the Greyhound. In 1730 the property was sold by Thomas Simpkins to William Rutley, when it is described as a three bay cottage with additional bays of stables and barn. In 1755 it was conveyed by William Rutley's son, also William, to a trustee for his mother, Rutley is described as a victualler and so it is not unreasonable to assume that by this stage the building was a licensed premises, although not described or named as such. This William Rutley left the building to his son, also William, by his will of 1789. This third William then, in 1813, conveyed it to a trustee in trust for his nephew William O'Dell. It is now described as formerly being a public house called the Greyhound. Thus it was clearly no longer a public house, Rutley, being noted as a farmer. Interestingly William O'Dell is, in a later document, described as training as a carpenter in Woburn but "afterwards went to the Public House at Crawley" suggesting that he reopened the building as a pub (though he, too, is later listed as farmer with a tenant at the pub).

The building was duly conveyed to William O'Dell by the trustee in 1815, when he came of age, and in 1832 O'Dell sold it to John, 6th Duke of Bedford, in return for an £18 per annum annuity, by which time it was described as a beerhouse| called the Haycock (possibly the name under which it was reopened by O'Dell), in occupation of Richard Clark, carrier. No further documents exist. 

The building was on the eastern side of Turnpike Road and the buildings on this side of the road were gradually bought up by the Duke of Bedford, then demolished to extend Woburn Park to the road and this is obviously the fate of the Haycock, perhaps soon after its sale and certainly at some point during the 19th century.

List of Licensees: note that this is not a complete list and that dates are not necessarily beginning or end dates, merely the first/last date which can be confirmed from sources such as directories and deeds:

- 1730 - some time before 1813: William Rutley (three generations successively);
- c.1815: William O'Dell;
- 1832: Richard Clark (also carrier);
Alehouse closed and demolished some time after 1832

List of sources at Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service:

- R6/29/1/1-15: deeds: 1730-1832