Timeline of Events in Toddington
1086: Toddington is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
1218: Toddington's first market and fair granted by Henry III to William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.
1222: The Church of St. George of England consecrated.
1349: The rector of Toddington, Geoffrey de Sewenestre dies of the Black Death, he is followed by two other rectors before the end of the year.
1405: Stocks erected on the Village Green for the punishment of delinquents.
1443: Hospital of St. John the Baptist founded by John Broughton for a warden and three old men (on land to the rear of Conger Hill).
1563: Queen Elizabeth I visits Lord Cheney at Toddington Manor.
1667: Toddington manor passes to Henrietta, Baroness Wentworth who has a scandalous love affair with the Duke of Monmouth. Monmouth abandons his Duchess and comes to live with Henrietta. In 1685 he made an abortive attempt on the throne and was executed, Henrietta died 'of a broken heart'.
1720: Wentworth House built for Thomas, Earl of Stafford, in 1754 it became the hunting lodge of Toddington Manor.
1745: Most of the Elizabethan manor house pulled down except for a corner block (now Toddington Manor) by the Earl of Strafford.
1821: A workhouse built on the southern end of the High Street.
1832: A subscription raised to buy a fire engine. The fire engine remained in service for over a hundred years! Eighteen firemen were recruited "each man was to receive his proper number, which shall be placed on the front of his hat".
1840: The Gentleman's Magazine records a very curious bronze elephant (believed to be Roman in date) being found at Lodge Farm.
1846: Toddington gets its first Post Office.
1853: Mains gas installed in the village
1854: Two day schools set up in the village. A Church of England School and a Wesleyan School.
1855: The Pump is presented to the village by Mr W. Dodge Cooper, the Lord of the Manor.
1857: Toddington cemetery opened.
1904: A fire burns down the old Griffin public house. It was replaced by the existing Griffin public house.
1884: Toddington Baptist Church built.
1907: A miniature rifle range built on Leighton Road.
1923: The first council houses built in Dunstable Road.
1938: The Town Hall and Village Green purchased by the Parish Council.
1944: Mains water supply scheme completed for village .
1976: A huge gale causes the battlements from the nave roof to crash through the north and south aisles of the church.
1987: Toddington Town Hall sold to a Luton Company for £47,500 to be turned into offices.
1990: An extension to Toddington cemetery consecrated by the Bishop of Bedford, Rt. Rev. David Farmbrough.
1993: Toddington Village Hall opened in Leighton Road.
1999: St. George’s Church given a £265,000 lottery grant to repair the tower
1999: Toddington Rovers play their final game on 1st May, winding up the club after 105 years.
2010: Toddington Town Band is 100 years old this year.