This had been created under the Public Health Acts of 1872 and 1875, giving public health and local government responsibilities for rural areas to the existing Boards of Guardians of Poor Law Unions.

[3] The link with the Poor Law Union continued, with all the elected councillors of both Eaton Bray and Linslade Rural District Councils being ex officio members of the Leighton Buzzard Board of Guardians.

The first meeting of the new Eaton Bray Rural District Council was held on 28 December 1894 at the Leighton Buzzard Union Workhouse, immediately after a meeting of the Board of Guardians.

From its formation until 1929 the council met at the Union Workhouse on Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, with administrative functions carried out at 30 High Street, Leighton Buzzard, which was the office of the solicitor who acted as clerk to the council.

[8] The council then remained based at 6 Leighton Road, Linslade until its abolition in 1933.