Several residents of Piddington and neighbouring village Hackleton were part of the dissenter church movement in the 18th century.

The opportunity then arose to travel in a Danish East Indiaman, and Dorothy was finally persuaded to leave Piddington and join her husband and son, Felix.

[5] By the 1870s, Piddington was linked to the national rail network by the Bedford to Northampton Line which provided a station to serve the village.

The Stratford and Midland Junction Railway, known as the "SMJ",[6] also opened a station at Salcey Forest to the south of Horton village.

The route of the line is just to the southeast of the village and is clearly visible, with a railway bridge marked with a weight restriction, at the side of the chicken farm.

The track bed is intact but the railway bridge is cracked, possibly caused by a vehicle collision.

To the west of the village, there is a disused quarry marked on Ordnance Survey maps but barely visible due to a copse of trees.