Timeline

Badby School becomes multi-Academy Trust with 3 other schools	2014
		2011	Population 632 (312 male, 320 female), 272 dwellings
Post Office closed	2008
Youth Hostel closed	2005
		2001	Population 633
Mains gas to the village. Co-op closes	1992
		1991	Population 720
		1986	Population 715
Nature Conservancy Council designate Badby Woods a Site of Special Scientific Interest	1985
		1981	Population 652 – 52% Females. 228 houses
New chestnut trees planted to replace ones showing signs of age	1975
The Glebe begun	1974
Houses built in Stone Way	1973
		1971	Population 580
National School closed and pulled down. Used for Sunday School & Mothers’ Union	1966
Council acquires land to create school playing field	1965
Houses built in Park Close	1963
		1961	Population 483
Mains water available for all	>1956
Neneside Close built	1956/7
Last Fawsley Woodman (E Hickman) retires	Mid- 1950s
Seat donated by WI placed on The Green	1954
		1951	Population 478
Street lighting installed	1949
Main drainage arrives	1948
New council houses built on Pound Lane	1947
Youth Hostel Association acquire cottages on Church Green (c. 1686). Opens 1946	1945
Still public stand-pipes on Vicarage Hill, Church Green, Church Hill, Brookside, Bunkers Hill, Main Street fed from Reservoir opp. Church, fed by springs	1940s
Phipps Brewery take over The Maltsters Arms	1939
Electricity in the village	1932
		1931	Population 444
Cemetery extended	1930
Chapel renovated by C Rodhouse JP	1929
Council houses built on Pinfold Green	1927
		1921	Population 468
Branch of Women’s Institute started by Lady Knightley. Parish passes to Bishop of Peterborough	1919
House where Corner House now stands burnt down	1917
Current Badby School opened	1913
Red Chestnut trees planted to commemorate the coronation of George V	1911/12	1911	Population 423
Public subscription towards a new Council school	1904
Co-op opens	1902
		1901	Population 408
Parish Council take over the village greens from Sir Charles Knightley	1897
		1891	Population 519
Churchyard closed, cemetery opened	1889/90
		1881	Population 530, 131 houses
Restoration of interior of Church by EF Law	1880
Chapel opened as Congregational Church	1873
		1871	Population 608
Mary Lady Knightley’s School used as infants’ school, National School created in cottages opposite The Vicarage on Vicarage Hill	1870
		1861	Population 618
Enclosures Award	1779	1779	90 houses and 44 homesteads
First recorded landlord of The Maltsters Arms (Barwich Brayfield)	1772
Simon Marriott was the earliest recorded landlord of The Windmill	1766
Act passed for creation of the Banbury–Lutterworth turnpike passing to west of Badby, with tollgate at ‘Badby Gap’	1765
		1720	86 houses
The Church steeple collapsed; rebuilding begun 1707, completed 1709	1705
		1676	Population – 420 Conformist, 0 Papist, 0 Non-conformist
All the routes out of Badby gated	1636
Date of inscription on Badby church bells	1623
Rectorship and patronage of Badby and Newnham passed to Christ Church, Oxford	1546
		1540	Population 280 (56 houses x 5, 37 listed as messuages)
Dissolution of the monasteries	1539
Moated hall rebuilt	1379
Construction of Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin	Early C14
Emparkment of Badby Woods for deer hunting by Henry III	1246
Moated grange built at Badby by the Abbot of Evesham	1189
		1104	Population 250 – 43 Heads of Household and 6 tenants (x 5 for population?) 50 houses (?) Totals include Newnham.
Record of Badby in Domesday Book – value £8	1086
Three Saxon Boundary Charters describe Badby estate boundaries (which included Newnham)	944– 1021

Mesozoic Era, Jurassic Period – Geological structures within which Badby sits formed	12–150 million years ago

Last updated 3 February 2018

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