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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]
Leighton Buzzard Flood Alleviation Scheme, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation. Bedford: Albion Archaeology - unpublished report series. doi:10.5284/1001904. Land near A4146 (geophysical survey; prehistoric field system): Heard, H (2005). Geophysical Survey Report, Area H17, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Stratascan Geophysical ...
Separate areas of urban land are linked if less than 200 metres apart. Land between built-up areas is not regarded as urban unless it satisfies one of the conditions listed above." [1] According to this definition of an Urban Area, Bedfordshire contains two urban areas that have populations over 100,000.
Whilst the district was named after the parish of Eaton Bray, the council was never based there.From its formation until 1929 the council met at the Union Workhouse on Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, with administrative functions carried out at 30 High Street, Leighton Buzzard, which was the office of the solicitor who acted as clerk to the council.
Leighton–Linslade is a civil parish in the district of Central Bedfordshire in Bedfordshire, England.It was formed in 1965 as a merger of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade, which prior to 1965 had been administratively separate urban districts.
Leedon is a former hamlet in Bedfordshire, England, which is now part of Leighton Buzzard town. [1] Originally, Leedon was a small rural settlement and was part of the Eggington civil parish. However, the expansion of Leighton Buzzard eastwards led to Leedon being encompassed in the wider Leighton-Linslade urban area. Today, Leedon represents ...
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.
This is a list of all the rural districts, urban districts and municipal boroughs in England as they existed prior to the entry into force of the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974. There were 1086 such districts and boroughs at this time, the result of a gradual consolidation since their formation in 1894.