IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Square, MILTON KEYNES, MK17 8DW

The hotel, built in about 1786, is listed as "The Holt" http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-38120-the-holt-aspley-guise , but has now reverted to its original name. The facade boasts three Venetian windows and a Diocletian window.

On a depressingly gloomy day, and about to get more depressing. I'd timed my arrival here to catch a bus to the station in Milton Keynes in time for a given train. However, because Bedford Road is closed for roadworks, the bus is diverted, and doesn't even come through Aspley Guise. All is not lost, because a notice attached to the bus stop tells me that a free taxi service is available as a replacement to Woburn Sands. So I ring the number, to be told by the taxi company that they're too busy to bother with me. I fervently hope that the local authority or the bus company weren't paying the taxi company anything for this non-existent service. So there followed an unscheduled walk/dash of over four kilometres to Old Farm Park to pick up another bus service. Miraculously, I still made the train.

The Square in the centre of Aspley Guise, a village in Bedfordshire.

With a datestone of 1842. The building is the Courtney Memorial Hall, and was originally Aspley Guise British School http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/AspleyGuise/AspleyGuiseBritishSchool.aspx . For information about the church, see http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/AspleyGuise/AspleyGuiseEvangelicalFreeChurch.aspx .

Cottages on West Hill a little southwest of The Square. The right-hand building is an "early C19 reworking of {an} earlier structure" http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-38125-10-aspley-guise .

As http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-38127-easter-cottage-18-aspley-guise explains, this C16 thatched cottage was formerly The Steamer public house.