[1] The first municipal building in Woburn was a three-storey market hall commissioned by the John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford and completed in 1737.

[3] By the early 19th century the building was dilapidated and John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford decided to demolish it and to replace it with a new structure on the same site.

[1] The new building was designed by Edward Blore in the Jacobethan style, built in brown brick with ashlar stone dressings and was completed in 1830.

[8] In November 1944, during the Second World War, the future Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, who at the time was working as a code breaker at Bletchley Park, attended a dance at the town hall.

[9] In September 1958, the town hall was the venue for a speech by local member of parliament, Alan Lennox-Boyd, who was then serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies, during which he was repeatedly interrupted by Empire Loyalists.