| 1680 |
Quakers Meeting in Thorpe Street (closed 1834) |
| 1780 |
Methodists - Bedfordshire Circuit |
| 1797 |
Enclosure of the village |
| 1798 |
Baptists converted a barn in Rotten Row (closed 1948) |
| 1812 |
Methodist Church [Higham Ferrers Circuit] |
| 1851 |
Friendly Society bought 4 cottages |
| 1848 |
Wesleyan Methodist School |
| 1859 |
National School (C of E) |
| 1866 |
Gas Works - lighting for streets and houses |
| 1866 |
Railway Station - but 2½ miles outside the village! |
| 1870 |
Primitive Methodist Church |
| 1880 |
Sewerage Scheme set up |
| 1897 |
Urban District Council formed |
| 1898 |
Bassford Recreation Ground - gift of Margaret Bass |
| 1899 |
The Square created |
| 1905 |
Raunds Strikers March to London |
| 1908 |
Waterworks |
| 1914 |
First Fire Engine |
| 1917 |
Cemetery laid out |
| 1918 |
First Labour Councillor - Mr Ralph Lawrence |
| 1920 |
First Council Houses |
