Ketton Timeline
| 1086 | Chetene was mentioned in the Domesday Book |
| c.1239 | St Mary's Church was rebuilt |
| 1568 | St Mary's Church registers began |
| 1594 | A monument to the Caldecote family was erected in the north aisle of St Mary's Church |
| 1598 | The earliest date of the bells at Ketton Church (others 1601, 1606, 1609, 1640 and 1713) |
| 1618 | Earliest datestone on The Priory |
| 1620 | Collyweston bridge was first built |
| 1672 | A licence was granted for Presbyterian meetings in a private house in Ketton |
| 1683 | The original Ketton Hall was built and occupied by the Noel–Edwards family |
| 1723 | Ketton stone pits were to be let - enquiries could be made to Mr Wootton of Ketton |
| 1740 | Cockfight at John Stangar’s house (Long Barn) |
| 1741 | Buckworth House in Redmiles Lane was built |
| 1768 | Ketton parish was enclosed (before enclosure, much of the arable land in England was organised into an open field system. Closes were small areas of enclosed private land such as paddocks, orchards or gardens, mostly near houses) |
| 1782 | Francis Wootton transferred the title deeds to land at Ketton and Kilthorpe to Gilbert Heathcote |
| 1795 | Sophia Elizabeth Edwards of Ketton Hall died aged 25 at Exton Hall - in her will she left money to establish a school in Ketton "to promote religion, morality and industry amongst the poor" |
| 1813 | Large fire in Geeston |
| 1824 | An advert was placed in the Stamford Mercury seeking a married man to undertake the management of the poor of Ketton |
| 1829 | The Congregational Chapel in Chapel Lane was built |
| 1830 | Miss Edwards Dame school was established at 67 High Street |
| 1834 | Thomas Nutt opened a quarry in Ketton for raising and squaring freestone. |
| 1834 | The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was established in Bull Lane |
| 1836 | Ketton Workhouse in Redmiles Lane closed (when Ketton joined the Stamford Union) |
| 1839 | The Ketton Friendly Society was founded |
| 1841 | Population of Ketton: 951 |
| 1842 | Typhus fever increased in Ketton |
| 1844 | Cleansing at Ketton church uncovered an ancient distemper painting of St Christopher |
| 1848 | Ketton railway station opened on 1st May |
| 1851 | Population of Ketton: 1,136 |
| 1857 | Ketton National School was opened |
| 1858 | The first mention in newspapers of Ketton Cricket Club – they beat Holywell by 11 runs. The players dined together afterwards in The White Hart |
| 1860 | Thomas Molesworth started brewing in Ketton |
| 1860 | The gas works were built |
| 1861 | Population of Ketton: 1,052 |
| 1861 | The nave, aisles and transepts at Ketton Church were restored at a cost of £2,150 under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott |
| 1862 | The Ketton Gas and Coke Company was founded |
| 1870 | The Amicable Friendly Club was founded (it closed in 1911 with the introduction of the National Insurance Act) |
| 1871 | Population of Ketton: 1,114 |
| 1872 | Telegraphic Communications started in Ketton as part of the postal service |
| 1873 | Ketton Hall was demolished and subsequently rebuilt |
| 1877 | Rutland Brewery was established in Ketton |
| 1881 | Population of Ketton: 1,116 |
| 1881 | The cemetery on Empingham Road was opened |
| 1884 | The first Ketton Sports and Gala was held |
| 1888 | The Jubilee Fountain was erected at Stocks Hill to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria |
| 1888 | Ketton Brass Band was started by Dr Snell |
| 1889 | Northwick Hall was opened (committee: Mr J Barsby, Mr W Oxborough, Mr R Hough and Mr E Berridge. Messrs Molesworth and Bean contributed) |
| 1890 | A Juvenile Branch of the Northwick Lodge of Oddfellows was established |
| 1891 | Population of Ketton: 1,027 |
| 1891 | The Tixover and Ketton Garden Society was established |
| 1892 | St Mary’s Diocesan Home opened at 88-90 High Street for reforming young women and training them for domestic service under the care of the Sisters of the Community of St Mary the Virgin at Wantage, Berkshire. |
| 1894 | The first meeting of Ketton Parish Council was held at the National School Room |
| 1895 | A severe storm blew the top off a windmill in Ketton |
| 1901 | Population in Ketton: 1,041 |
| 1901 | The first water supply came to Ketton, to The Cottage in Aldgate |
| 1904 | A lychgate added to St Mary's Churchyard |
| 1908 | Ketton Primary School was enlarged (134 boys and girls, 74 infants) |
| 1908 | A Mother's Union branch opened in Ketton. Mrs Tweddell, who lived at The Priory, was the founding enrolling member. |
| 1910 | The White Hart pub closed down (now 31 High Street) |
| 1910 | A patrol of Baden-Powell Boy Scouts was formed in the village |
| 1911 | Population of Ketton: 991 |
| 1912 | The National School was closed on account of scarlet fever in the village |
| 1918 | The Barley Mow pub closed down (now 19 Bull Lane) |
| 1916 | The gas works closed down |
| 1926 | Ketton Hall was demolished and subsequently rebuilt |
| 1926 | Ketton Village Men’s Club started |
| 1928 | Ketton cement works opened in July |
| 1930 | Ketton Football Club started |
| 1934 | The Aveland Arms pub closed down (now 2 Bull Lane) |
| 1934 | Electric light was installed in the Congregational Chapel. |
| 1934 | At a Parish Council meeting it was voted not to light the streets of Ketton with electricity. |
| 1935 | The Pied Bull inn on the corner of Bull Lane burnt down |
| 1935 | Ketton railway station was renamed "Ketton and Collyweston" |
| 1935 | The Crown pub on the High Street closed |
| 1936 | The first electricity came to Ketton |
| 1941 | The Midland Hotel closed |
| 1944 | St Mary’s House for penitent women closed after 48 years |
| 1945 | The Exeter Arms pub in Aldgate closed |
| 1957 | The first public water supply came to Ketton |
| 1964 | Mary Emma Molesworth left money in her will (from a trust set up by her sister Helen Potter) to establish Molesworth Eventide Bungalows |
| 1966 | Ketton railway station closed on 6th June |
| 1969 | A new Ketton School was opened on 30 June by the Bishop of Peterborough |
| 1969 | Chater House (residential care home) was opened by the Duchess of Gloucester |
| 1970 | Geeston Tap, previously the Geeston Lodge Brewery, closed as a public house |
| 1971 | Manor View flats were built on the site near The Crown pub |
| 1972 | The library was built - faced with stone from the former National School |
| 1972 | The core of the village was a designated a Conservation Area |
| 1980 | Carver Court opened |
| 1986 | Ketton Quarries were designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) as they contain nationally important exposures of Jurassic Limestone |