Eaton Bray Ward

Eaton Bray Ward includes 3 village's Billington, Eaton Bray and Totternhoe has always been one of the more populous rural parishes in the county. It is interesting to note that the only drop in population occurred after 1871 and lasted into the 1920s. An agricultural depression initially drive people away from the land to seek their living in towns and steady agricultural mechanisation continued that trend before an increasing birth rate began to reverse the decline. Latterly, of course, many villages have seen great expansion as the population has risen and people who work in towns and cities have chosen to move to the countryside for the better quality of life it affords; hence the population of Eaton Bray more than doubling between 1931 and 2025.