Our Story

Family business

The Waggon & Horses has been serving Graveley since the 1800s, and the photographs on our walls go back nearly as far.

In 2000, Gary and Becky took it on and spent twenty two years making it the kind of pub people call theirs. In 2022 they handed it to family: their nephew Dean and his wife Amy, who had been part of the furniture here for years anyway.

We have not tried to reinvent anything. Good pub food, a proper pint, fair prices, and remembering your name by the second visit. The rest is keeping the fire lit.

Dean & Amy

The village

Graveley has been here since the Domesday Book in 1086. The High Street outside our door was once part of the Great North Road, the coaching route from London to York and Edinburgh, which is how a pub comes to be called The Waggon & Horses.

St Mary’s has stood at the heart of the village since the 12th century, and in the fields at Chesfield you can still find the ruin of its 14th century sister church.

Add the pond, the green belt and some very good walking, and you would never guess Stevenage is five minutes away. Worth arriving hungry.