The company registered at The Honey Bee was wound up on 2 September on an HMRC petition. The Fairford Leys pub is still open and taking Christmas bookings.

A company registered at The Honey Bee pub on Trenchard Street was wound up by the High Court on Wednesday 2 September. HM Revenue and Customs brought the petition.

The pub itself is still trading. Its own website was open for bookings on 30 September, and it is selling Christmas menus.

The company is Honeybeepub Ltd, company number 15491336. Its registered office is the pub, and its accounts are filed under the name Honeybee Pub Ltd. Three weeks after the order, on 23 September, The Honey Bee was named Marston’s Pub of the Year. We reported the award on 25 September.

What the court record says

HMRC presented a petition to wind up the company on 10 July 2026, as a creditor. The petition notice in The London Gazette gave the hearing as 2 September at the Rolls Building in London, High Court case CR-2026-005476. (The Gazette, notice 5194065)

The order was made at that hearing. The Official Receiver was appointed liquidator on the same day, and the order was published in the Gazette on 6 September. (The Gazette, notice 5205963)

The court’s order to wind up was filed at Companies House on 23 September. The company’s status there now reads “Liquidation”. (Companies House, filing history)

A winding-up order is a compulsory liquidation. It is not a choice the company’s own directors made. The petition notice does not say how much HMRC was owed, and neither does any other public record we could find.

What the company’s filings show

The company was incorporated on 15 February 2024, and it describes its business as public houses and bars. Its filing record at Companies House shows a company that struggled to keep up:

  • Companies House began compulsory strike-off action against it three times, in May 2025, January 2026 and July 2026. That is the step it takes when a company’s filings are overdue. Each time the action was discontinued once the company filed.
  • Its first accounts, for the year to 28 February 2025, were approved and filed on 11 August 2026.
  • Those accounts give an average of 30 people employed by the company during that year.
  • The balance sheet at 28 February 2025 shows £5,060 of current assets against £91,264 owed to creditors within a year.

(Companies House, micro-entity accounts to 28 February 2025)

What the record does not tell us

The public record does not say what arrangement the company had with Marston’s, which owns the pub. CAMRA’s pub guide lists the building as a Marston’s-owned new-build pub. Marston’s did not mention the company or the court order in the award announcement it sent us on 25 September.

The pub’s website lists a Marston’s email address. It runs its offers under Marston’s PLC, company number 00031461, of Wolverhampton. That is a separate company, and nothing in the record suggests it is affected. (The Honey Bee’s website)

What it means for you

  • If you drink or eat at The Honey Bee, nothing has visibly changed. It gives its hours as 11am to 11pm Monday to Friday, 10am to 11pm on Saturday and 11am to 10.30pm on Sunday. Food is served from noon. Check its website before a booking.
  • If Honeybeepub Ltd owes you money, your claim now goes to the Official Receiver as liquidator. The Gazette notice gives the office as PO Box 16662, Birmingham, B2 2HA, telephone 0300 678 0016.
  • If you worked for the company and are owed wages, holiday pay or notice pay, the government’s Redundancy Payments Service covers some of what an insolvent employer owes. The liquidator has to confirm your details first.

We report insolvency notices exactly as the official register records them. If you are connected with the company and want to give its side, email hello@aylesburytimes.co.uk.

For more on the town’s businesses, see our local business directory.