 The meaning of the Husborne element of the towns name is "warrior stream" and the Crawley element means "crow clearing".It appears as Hussheburn Crawele, in 1421.In the 1870s Crawley-Husborne was described as "a parish in Woburn district, Beds; on the Bedford and Bletchley railway, ¾ mile SW of Ridgmount r. station, and 1¾ NNE of Woburn."