[1] In the 1970s, a Bronze Age barrow cemetery in the form of five ring ditches was excavated prior to gravel extraction.

[2] Archaeological evidence of Romano-British occupation was found in trenches dug in 2007 east of the Black Cat roundabout.

Roxton is part of Wyboston ward for elections to the Borough of Bedford Unitary Authority.

[6] The River Great Ouse forms the parish's eastern and most of its southern boundary, and the A421 road its western.

[7] Bedford Borough Council classifies the local landscape as the Great Ouse Clay Valley.

A sand and gravel quarry is being worked east of the Black Cat roundabout by Breedon Aggregates.

[8] Around the village the soil has low fertility, is freely draining and slightly acid with a loamy texture.

The southwestern part of the parish has highly fertile, lime-rich loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage.

There are three broad, low arches built with blocks of Bramley Fall stone from a quarry near Leeds.

Except where replaced by concrete, Bramley Fall stone copings run the length of the bridge.

Roxton CE Academy caters for up to 90 girls and boys aged from 3 to 11 years and is governed locally under the auspices of The Diocese of St Albans Multi-Academy Trust.

Roxton is served by the regional Stagecoach X5 bus route; east to St Neots and Cambridge and west to Bedford, Milton Keynes and Oxford.

The Grade II* listed Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene dates from the 14th century and is built of rich brown cobblestones with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.

[18] The Roxton Congregational Chapel, also Grade II* listed, originates from 1808, when meetings were held in a barn.