In 2009, Mid Bedfordshire District Council published an appraisal of the conservation area, which stated Aspley Heath is "characterised by large detached houses set in extensive grounds".

[5] The coursed limestone church building is Grade II* listed and features many windows with "curious" tracery.

[3] In May 1874, Dr Prior, medical officer of the local Board of Health said that Aspley Heath used to be "a wild stretch of elevated ground, largely covered in ling, and tenanted by a few squatters, who occupied huts of a most primitive description".

[10] Dr Prior reported in 1878 that one family was living in a railway carriage on a secluded part of the heath; he certified the residence unfit for habitation.

[11] In a retrospective The Fenny Stratford Times of 8 March 1883 said the squatters were the poor of Aspley parish, who were refused aid and had been directed to look for sustenance on the heath by working the natural materials there — digging sandstone, fuller's earth and peat, and felling fir poles — and to make themselves homes and grow vegetables on their plots.

It was owned by Newland & Nash, Bedford brewers from 1890 then Wells and Winch of Biggleswade from 1922 until that brewery was taken over by Greene King in 1961.

The open landscape of Wavendon Heath was transformed by the planting of thousands of Scotch firs in the last quarter of the 18th century.