[1] Turvey is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as a parish in the Hundred of Willey.

[3] The Mordaunt family obtained the manor by marriage in 1197 and were ennobled as Barons of Turvey in the 16th century.

[4] The Norman church was enlarged in the 14th and 15th centuries; sumptuous improvements were made by Sir Gilbert Scott.

In the 19th century the Bedford to Northampton Line of the Midland Railway was built through the parish and opened in 1872.

[7] Turvey electoral ward includes the villages of Stagsden and Kempston Rural.