The link with the Poor Law Union continued, with all the elected councillors of the Rural District Council being ex officio members of the Ampthill Board of Guardians.

The first meeting of the new council was held on 3 January 1895 in the board room of the Ampthill Union Workhouse.

Administrative office functions were carried out at various premises both in the town of Ampthill and in neighbouring Flitwick.

[5] The council acquired a large house called The Limes at 12 Dunstable Street in Ampthill, which became their offices and meeting place in 1939.

[6] The Limes was demolished and replacement offices built on the site in 1963–1965 to the designs of Sir Albert Richardson.