Hitchin had in 1850 become an important railway station on the Great Northern Railway and housing had been built near the station following this. The particular Baptist Church at Tilehouse Street was rather inconvenient for them and so led by Mr Richard Johnson, the GNR engineer, a small group in 1867 decided to serve this area by erecting a temporary church building. Mr Johnson himself, owning a piece of land in Walsworth Road, was responsible for putting up the actual mission hall.

This hall was made of wood with a corrugated roof and filled with open pews was able to seat 200 worshippers. This hall known as "The Railway Mission" opened for the public worship of God on Wednesday 9th October 1867. A Sunday School started soon after and before long had 120 children in attendance regularly. Services were so well supported that an extension was built in 1868 to provide a schoolroom, vestries and baptistery.

Shortly after, in September 1869, the Mission Hall was formally registered as a place of Public Worship and hence became a Church.

By 1875 the congregations were so large that it was decided to go ahead and build the present church and this opened for worship on Tuesday 23rd May 1876. Membership of the Church by now had risen and in 1881 there were 134 members rising to 268 in 1888 after several transferred from Tilehouse Street in order to support the work at Walsworth Road.

In 1912 the suggestion was made to replace the old Mission Hall with a new Sunday School building and this was formally opened on 15th April 1915. Difficult times were experienced but new groups started within the Church and a link with the Scouting movement was made which is still strong at the present time. Membership had fallen by the early 1920's but was 126 in 1933.

In 1954 Revd S.M.Stone was inducted as minister and he was to become our longest service pastor as he served us until his retirement in 1990. Membership in 1954 stood at 118.

The Church centenary celebrations were held between October 5th and 14th 1969 and evenings were led by different groups in the Church including the Sunday School.

The Church at Walsworth Road started its own magazine for the congregation in 1971 and this continues to be popular containing as it does a mix of news, forthcoming events, reports and articles of interest to the congregation.

In 1992 building work was carried out in the Church to extend the vestibule area at the entrance and this gave an area suitable for serving tea and coffee after morning services. This room was named the "Richard Johnson Room" in honour of our founder and is used regularly for meetings as well as its function on a Sunday.

Two years after Revd S.M.Stone's retirement, the Church invited Revd Ian Green from Kettering to serve as the next minister and he served from September 1992 until August 1999 when he and his family moved to Malvern Baptist Church.

The Revd Andrew Henton Pusey was appointed pastor of the Church in November 2002.

In 2008 major building work was undertaken to extend the buildings at a cost of £400,000. A new entrance, toilets and kitchen were built between the existing buildings to provide facilities suitable for the 21st century.

Thanks are due to Mr Peter Hankin for permission to use information from his book "A History of Walsworth Road Baptist Church Hitchin Hertfordshire 1867-1992".