Wootton is a large village and civil parish located to the southwest of Bedford, in the north of Bedfordshire, England.

Wootton has had a long association with brick-making, but is now mainly a dormitory community for Bedford and Milton Keynes.

The Church of St Mary the Virgin in the village is mainly 14th century but contains two fine monuments in the chancel to members of the Monoux family who died in 1685 and 1707.

The Domesday Book of 1086, listed Wootton as having 26 residents (20 villagers and six slaves) across ten hides.

According to the 2011 Census, the area covered by Wootton civil parish had 4,156 residents who lived in 1,654 households.