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| Church Bells retuned and rehung with new headstocks and clappers | 2025/26 | |||
| Last service held in The Chapel | 2021 | 2021 | Population 701 (346 female, 355 male), 278 households | |
| Extension to Badby Primary School built. Closure of the Windmill Inn. Badby Neighbourhood Plan published | 2019 | |||
| Internal changes to St Mary’s Church to make it more suitable for modern use | 2018 | |||
| 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 (SSSI) | 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 to all houses | >1956 | |||
| Neneside Close built | 1956/7 | |||
| Last Fawsley Woodman (E Hickman) retires | Mid- 1950s | |||
| Seat donated by WI placed on The Green | 1954 | |||
| Village Hall purchased by Parish Council, run by separate Management Committee | 1951 | 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 takes over The Maltsters Arms | 1939 | |||
| Electricity in the village. Bells at St Mary’s Church installed in new frame and retuned | 1932 | |||
| 1931 | Population 444 | |||
| Cemetery extended | 1930 | |||
| Chapel renovated by C Rodhouse JP | 1929 | |||
| Council houses built on Pinfold Green | 1927 | |||
| Village Institute (now Village Hall) built onto The Old School House | 1921 | 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 takes 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 | |||
| National School created in cottages on Vicarage Hill; Mary Lady Knightley’s School used as infants’ school | 1870 | |||
| 1861 | Population 618 | |||
| Mary Lady Knightley’s School for girls (The Old School House) designed by Willam Wyatt | 1812 | |||
| Enclosures Act for Badby passed | 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 creates the Banbury–Lutterworth turnpike (now the A361) passing 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 (inc. Newnham) 250 – 43 Heads of Household and 6 tenants (x 5 for approx. population), 50 (?) houses | |||
| Record of Badby (Badebi) 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 were formed | 12–150 million years ago |
Last updated 26 May 2026