Long barrow at Knocking Knoll

Romans arrive

Saxon burial

Domesday entry for Periton

In the Domesday entry Periton had 10 slaves

Open field farming in strips

St Marys Church built

Unlicensed castles were demolished after the civil war

Archery practised on the butts

Black Death kills a third of the village

Tudor wars

Docwra riots

The great rebuilding Pyrton increased by 50%

Puritans were in power in the Commonwealth

Enclosure of the small shotts into large fields

Six beershops were opened in the village

Straw plaiting for the Luton hat trade

Transport improves because of the Hitchin to Bedford turnpike

Cycling for pleasure and to get to work

Beginning of cars and planes

he war memorial was set up in the churchyard commemorating the village boys who had died in the Great War

Dig for victory land was ploughed up in the second world War

A doodlebug fell in the Bury