The Crooked Billet - Newton Longville,Buck's
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Norfolk12
N 51° 58.548 W 000° 46.386
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The Crooked Billet is a 16th century village pub,
This award winning Pub/restaurant.Recognised as one of Milton Keynes best restaurants,
Waymark Code: WMARTM
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/20/2011
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History of the Crooked Billet
There are many interpretations as to what a billet might be. A staff, a housing for soldiers, a ticket, a piece of beachwood, or a piece of wood used to light a fire. It is thought that the latter is the correct explanation for the name of the pub – the Crooked Billet.An old piece of fire wood above the entrance and named the pub The Crooked Billet.
Using the wood from a sailing ship, the Crooked Billet was built around 1600 as a farm house.
The owners served ale to the farmers and farm workers going to work in the morning and arriving back from the fields in the early evening. Shortly after, in the early 1700s, it began staying open later in the evening and changed from an alehouse to a licensed village pub.
A brew house was added sometime in the 1800s to cope with the demand of an ever growing surrounding population and the systematic closure of the other seven alehouses in the village.
It is thought that it was at this time that it became solely a village pub. The village festival was held in the gardens with stalls and games, such as spit rock, being played.
Today it is still run as the village pub, but with the addition of a separate restaurant, and has won many national awards.
Link for more info : (visit link)
Real Ale: yes
Bar Food Available: yes
Restaurant: yes
Dogs Allowed: no
Garden: yes
CAMRA Listed: yes
Beer brewed on site: no
Website: [Web Link]
General comments:
The history of the building
and the range of the menus are amazing..
Children Allowed: Not listed
Accommodation: Not Listed
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