[6] The manor first left complete royal demesne, with the unfettered right to appoint mesne lords, in 1173 when the King granted the estate worth £15 per year to Roger de Sanford who three years later owed 5 marks for default (of the annual knight's fee) to the King.

Agnes's share descended to Juliana de Weylondon, the other two-thirds were purchased by 1299 by an acquisitive William Inge.

[5] Inge was Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the reign of Edward II, and in 1310 received a grant of 100 marks as recompense for wages and horses lost by him in his Scottish war.

payable to Westoning Chantry", which had been endowed with land by a prominent lord of the main manor in 1314, William Inge.

'[7] The rectory of Westoning was transferred by the Crown from the Nunnery at Elstow Abbey to Thomas Hungate and Simon Aynesworth in 1550.

Another extent dated fifty years later again mentions one mill, then worth nothing, and reference is found to it in a document as late as 1615.

In the 17th century Westoning was inhabited by the wandering religious man, and an early Baptist forefather John Bunyan, who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress; he was arrested on 12 November 1660 shortly after the restricted religious rights introduced on the Restoration of the Monarchy for preaching privately in Lower Samsell in the village.

John Everitt purchased the manor in 1767, whose son of the same name was knighted, another of the same name held it until he died in 1836, after which his executors sold the property to Reverend J. W. C. Campion in whose family it remained until Major Coventry Campion[n 4] died in 1903 to be purchased from his widow, later Mrs Blyth-King, by the Spensley family.

Westoning made news headlines on 11 September 1976 when, at 07:10, a Texaco petrol tanker overturned in the High Street.

Denis Regan’s career was cut short owing to injuries he received from the accident and was forced into immediate retirement.

Howard Spensley in 1912 owned it, then a comparatively modern building of brick and stone, although a large quantity of old woodwork he said was taken from the house at Wrest Park, on its construction being demolished, and from the old Palace of Westminster, incorporated in the design of many of the rooms and staircases.

In the high street is the small joint Post Office and newsagent with a traditional village butcher's shop opposite.

The pubs are The Chequers, a half-timber and thatch building of 18th-century date, and The Bell, an 18th-century brick and tile house that had its sign displayed from an old oak standing by the roadside.

Westoning Lower School is situated in the heart in the village and is known for its many social occasions that include performances such as country dancing.

In the tale, a man named Fulke had refused to pay his rent of one denarius to a local farmer, Ailward or Eilward.

[14] The story is told in a set of early thirteenth century stained glass windows at Canterbury Cathedral, which were borrowed for display in the British Museum for the exhibition commemorating the 851st anniversary of Becket's murder in 2021 (delayed from 850th in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic).

[12][15] Flitwick is 1.95 miles (3.14 km) northeast of junction 12 of the M1 motorway, and beside the railway line from Brighton and London to Bedford which has a direct connection to Scotland via Leicester.

[3] Major Coventry Campion had built the Clock Tower of brick and stone to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.