Bletchley, Tree Square c.1955
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Inn-keeping has long been a city area tradition. On one of Stony Stratford's first bridges over the River Great Ouse, Grilkes Inn had been operating since 1317, possibly the oldest alehouse in Buckinghamshire; and the Cross Keys (1475) and the Cock and the Bull (both 1480) became well known to seasoned travellers through the town, not least because of the fanciful 'cock and bull' stories told there. These stories might have been about the 'fine lady upon a white horse' who rode her 'Cock horse to Banbury Cross' (possibly Celia Fiennes); or about the infamous Dick Turpin, who apparently visited just about every staging post with his mare Black Bess being seen tied up outside. In 1737 this 'Essex butcher turned thief, smuggler and highwayman' (Markham) allegedly visited the Old Swan at Woughton, and reversed Black Bess's shoes so that his pursuers would set off after him in the wrong direction. Notwithstanding, he was hanged in York in 1739 at the age of 34.
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