Husborne Crawley

Husborne Crawley is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, located close to Junction 13 of the M1 motorway.

The Crawley Park estate is privately owned, and features some preserved and listed wooden-framed medieval cottages.

[7] Other amenities in the village include Husborne Crawley Lower School which was built by The Duke of Bedford in 1867, and was set up to ensure that the poorer families who worked on the estates, could have educated children.

[8] Husborne Crawley also has a village hall, called "The Reading Room", which is used by the community for meetings, social gatherings and parties.

[13] Throughout the history of the parish its main industry has been agriculture, yields crops of wheat, barley and beans come from the areas very rich soil base.

[20] London Midland trains serve the station, which also acts as a transport route for workers at an Amazon.com warehouse which is located on the other side of the M1.

1945 Map of Husborne Crawley showing the towns topography
A graph showing the total Husborne Crawley Population from 1801 to 2011, as reported by the Vision of Britain website and Census information. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]