The area was occupied during the Roman period and two sites have been discovered (See below) The 900s During the 800s, the Danes had made a series of attacks on the Eastern coast of England and gradually progressed inland.

In 878, after a series of skirmishes and battles, Alfred the Great, the Saxon King, agreed the Treaty of Wedmore (no document survives), by which the Danes were allowed to settle in that part of England to the North East of Watling Street.

In 921, there were further threats of Danish incursion and King Edward gave orders to proceed to Towcester to make ready for defence against possible attack.

Whether the inhabitants of Heyford were primarily Saxon or Dane is impossible to know, but they must have been involved to some degree in the skirmishes, the trade, and the subsequent merging of the languages and the two ways of life.

Under the Norman administration, Northampton town was becoming an important centre, being central between Winchester (the old capital of Wessex), York, the port of London, and the Welsh borders.

This depopulated much of the countryside and created the opportunity for some of the more powerful lords and yeomen to take control of larger areas of land.

However, in 1541, John Mauntell, "sallying forth in company with his brother-in-law, Lord Dacre, and others on a nocturnal frolic to chase the deer in St Nicholas Pelham's Park in Sussex, encountered three men, one of whom being mortally wounded in the affray.

Then in 1553, John's only son Walter "engaged the Kentish insurrection to approve the marriage of Queen Mary, headed by Sir Thomas Wyatt, and was taken prisoner with him, sent to the Tower, and subsequently executed in Kent on 27th Feb, 1553".

The current school building was opened on 5 January 1880 as three departments, Infants, Girls, Boys with Henry Smith as Schoolmaster.

Three schoolmasters were sacked during the next 20 years: one for 'playing his flute around the villages', one for 'playing football with the boys' and one for refusing to teach a night school without any extra pay.

A meeting was held at the Foresters Arms where it was decided to enter a team into the League and the Heyford Athletic Football Club was formed.

The boys were told to go to the Old Sun via Watery Lane, not via Middle Street, as Mr. Cameron didn't want his wife to see that he was drinking.

He owned the village bake house in Church Street, he was for 50 years the minister at the Methodist Chapel, and he became the first chairman of the Parish Council.

The farmers in the village were listed as Oliver Adams, Wakefield Whitton, Henry Isham Londen, and John Banner.

Early in the 1920s Ernest Humphrey came to the village and began his ladder making business, and in 1928 the Collins family came to Wharf Farm.

1953 saw the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and the Parish Council organized the planting of Acacia and May trees along 'Coronation Avenue' between the two halves of the green.

Much of the old traditional way of life was lost, many new houses were built, the population doubled, bringing many newcomers and a modern village emerged.

This decade saw the building of the entire Wilsons Estate, and the complete redevelopment of the Brook Farm and Watery Lane area.

In 1967 the old A45 road into Northamtpton was converted to dual carriageway, and in 1968 Campion School in Bugbrooke was opened to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of young people in the area.

An article about the village in the Mercury and Herald in November 1969 also referred to the Theatre Club, the WEA, the Boy Scouts, the Cubs, the Girls Brigade, the Derby & Joan, and the St John's Ambulance.

In 1987 the new Youth Club building was built by Ray Wray, and the culvert to prevent flooding was put in place through the centre of the village.

In 1805, a Baptist Chapel had been opened in the next village (Bugbrooke) and so Heyford people, until having their own building, would have walked or ridden on horseback to attend services there.

Thus in 1826 in an era of industrial development in the village between the opening of the canal (1790s) and the construction of the railway (1830s) Baptists were able to establish a presence in Heyford although the link with Bugbrooke remained and the Minister there had charge of both chapels.

Games were organised for the children in Mr Adams Orchard at the rear of the School and later an open-air service was held on the green.

Partly with the benefit of a legacy from Mr A T Cosford in 1962, the Heyford Chapel was able to consider a measure of rebuilding and, in calling a part-time Minister became independent.

This was the beginning of the ministry of the Rev Harry Whittaker, better known for his work as the Founder Director of the Northamptonshire Association of Youth Clubs.

The two stained glass windows which now grace the front of the building were also moved from the Methodist Chapel along with a number of pews and some panelling which was used to create a vestibule.

The villa site is on a hillside with panoramic view eastwards over the upper valley of the River Nene before it enters the town of Northampton.

It was on east of the West Coast Main Line on a piece of land bounded by the railway, the road to Upper Stowe (Furnace Lane) and the canal.

The clay used came from a claypit a short distance away and was brought by a narrow gauge tramway operated by two geared steam locomotives.