 The highest level recorded was reached on Wednesday 11 February 2009.Biggleswade was a constituent part of and gave its name to one of the Hundreds of Bedfordshire from Anglo-Saxon times until the 19th century.Most functions of Biggleswade Urban District, created under the Local Government Act 1894, were subsumed in 1974 into Mid Bedfordshire District Council under the Local Government Act 1972, the remainder passing to the newly-formed Biggleswade Town Council.