Little Staughton is a small village and civil parish located in the north of Bedfordshire.

Little Staughton, known at the beginning of the 11th century as Stoctun from the old english meaning "farmstead at an outlying hamlet".

The population rose to a peak of 572 in 1861, then fell due to 218 by 1951, due to the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars[4] The Church of All Saints, previously dedicated to St Margaret's,[5] originally had a spire that was destroyed by lightning.

[9] Little Staughton is a village in Bedfordshire, in the Borough of Bedford, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south east of Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire[10] The parish is part of the Stodden Hundred (which comprises Bolnhurst, Clapham, Dean and Shelton, Keysoe, Knotting, Little Staughton, Melchbourne, Milton Ernest, Oakley, Pertenhall & Swineshead, Riseley, Shelton, Tilbrook and Yelden).

An alternative theory is that the village moved to follow the local road network.