 The club have recently developed a new rivalry against Enfield Rugby Club.Probably the first golden age for the club was in the late 1980s when along with other accolades they were winners of East Midlands One, then in 1989-90 winners of the East Midlands/Leicester League and the Beds County Cup in 1991 and finalists in the East Midlands Cup in 1991.The First XV was then a young team bolstered by a number of former top-flight players who turned out for Biggleswade The best known player to have pulled on the Biggleswade club shirt is John Orwin, captain of Gloucester, Bedford, and the Barbarians and also of England during their tour of Australia in 1988.