
A Long Marston Pub Crawl: Part 2
Many villagers, including me, will remember going into The Boot, which closed around 15 years ago.

Many villagers, including me, will remember going into The Boot, which closed around 15 years ago.

My name is Alan Reason. I was born in Wilstone in 1947 and lived there for sixteen years until 1963. Most of the buildings I knew as a child still exist even if now put to different uses. However, one Wilstone village building that has disappeared – and one I remember very well – was the village school.

The question I most often get asked living in Long Marston’s Rose and Crown, is when did it stop being a pub?

Just when you think that one book about the second world war could never be matched, another one comes along.

This book was launched on the 27th November 2022 at Marsworth Village Hall. It tells the story of the Polish Hostel which was a significant

In some ways, there could not be a greater contrast than between this tidily produced book and the previous history of Puttenham reviewed elsewhere on this website.
From 1939 to the 50s and from 2005 onwards when the Village News went full digital. Available to download in PDF format.
The latest issues can always be downloaded from www.wilstone.me.uk
This website has been developed on the initiative of Tring Rural Parish Council, to enable all residents of our villages to have the opportunity to find out more about our history. It has been created by a number of interested villagers working on a voluntary basis, putting together information from a variety of sources.
We see this as an evolving process, starting in the first instance with a timeline of the most important events in our village histories since the beginning of the First World War in 1914. We hope to extend this foundation in two ways; firstly by creating links to pictures, articles and other websites and secondly by going back to previous periods of history, ultimately as far back as Roman times.
The other way in which we hope the website content will evolve is via the feedback of as many villagers as possible, either to add to the timeline or to challenge us to prove that we have got it right. We would also like any pictures or articles which can be added to those we have already found.