Today, Great Woolstone still has its own village pub, the thatched-roof "Cross Keys", which can trace its history back to 1560.

Its village pub, "The Barge Inn", dates from this time, being opened to meet the needs of the canal labourers, but is now mainly a restaurant.

.... Great Woolstone, or Vlieston as it was called at the time of Domesday, was held, under Walter Giffard, of the foreign monks of Saint Peter de Culture, and is now in the possession of the Selby-Lowndes, one of the oldest families in the Kingdom, lords also of Whaddon away to the south-west.

I suppose that I have entered this place not less than fifty times, yet I have never seen a man there who did not carry a scythe, or wear leggings, or smoke a clay pipe, or talk of London as though it were a distant phantom thousands of miles away upon a faint horizon.

In 1861 Mr. Smith’s steam cultivator ploughed up a crop of coins bearing as motto the words Regus et Regulus.