The Crooked Billet is a 16th century, Grade II listed village pub nestled in the northern boarders of Buckinghamshire.

There are many interpretations as to what a billet might be. A staff, a housing for soldiers, a ticket, a piece of beachwood, or a piece of wood used to light a fire. It is thought that the latter is the correct explanation for the name of the pub – The Crooked Billet.

Using the wood from a sailing ship, the Crooked Billet was built around 1600 as a farm house. The owners served ale to the farmers and farm workers going to work in the morning and arriving back from the fields in the early evening. Shortly after, in the early 1700s, it began staying open later in the evening and changed from an alehouse to a licensed village pub.