Daventry branch was formed the same year as the Legion, 1921. It had club premises which moved several times to various locations in the town.

Our branch encompasses a wide area, with around a dozen villages. This involves a lot of effort in welfare and Poppy Appeal collecting.

Daventry is an old market town with a proud history. It was an important town on stagecoach routes, but fell into stagnation with the coming of the railways. There was little Victorian expansion and the population remained around 4000. A shoe factory was located in the town, but Daventry's main claim to fame was its association with the BBC. They established a Transmitting Station on Borough Hill in 1925 to transmit the National Programme on long wave. 1932 saw the start of overseas broadcasting, transmitted from the Borough Hill site, and this expanded rapidly, just before, and during the war. This lasted until the short wave station was closed in 1992. The private company which took over BBC transmitters still have maintenance and storage facilities on the Borough Hill site.

Apart from this, Daventry has expanded rapidly since 1961, when it became a Birmingham overspill area. A lot of industry has moved in, with all the necessary facilities, to give a population of over 25,000.