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On 7 July 1891 a Local Government District was established for the town, covering the township of Leighton Buzzard (being that part of the ancient parish of Leighton Buzzard excluding the hamlets of Billington, Eggington, Heath and Reach, and Stanbridge), removing the town from the Leighton Buzzard Rural Sanitary District. [3] [4]
The Leighton Buzzard Urban District was abolished in 1965, merging with Linslade Urban District to become Leighton-Linslade Urban District. [47] The merged council was based at the White House, which had previously been the headquarters of the Leighton Buzzard Urban District Council.
"The definition of an urban area is an extent of at least 20 hectares and at least 1,500 residents at the time of the 2001 Census. ... Leighton Buzzard: 32,573 7.95 ...
Leighton-Linslade Urban District was created on 1 April 1965 as a merger of Leighton Buzzard Urban District in Bedfordshire and Linslade Urban District in Buckinghamshire. The new urban district was placed entirely in Bedfordshire, thereby transferring Linslade from Buckinghamshire to Bedfordshire. [6]
Eaton Bray Rural District was abolished in 1933 under a County Review Order being merged into the Luton Rural District apart from a small area of Heath and Reach parish which was transferred to Leighton Buzzard Urban District instead. These changes took effect on 1 April 1933. [9] [10]
Linslade now forms part of the urban area of Leighton Buzzard. Linslade and Leighton Buzzard were administratively separate urban districts until 1965, when Linslade was transferred from Buckinghamshire to Bedfordshire and merged with Leighton Buzzard to become Leighton-Linslade. Linslade remained a part of the Diocese of Oxford until 2008 when ...
The council initially used the former Dunstable Borough Council offices at Grove House in Dunstable as its headquarters, but also continued to use the former Leighton-Linslade offices at the White House in Leighton Buzzard and the former Luton Rural District Council offices on Sundon Road in Houghton Regis.
Wing Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England.It was created in 1894 with the name Linslade Rural District, but was renamed Wing Rural District in 1897 when Linslade itself was removed from the district to become an urban district.