Leighton Buzzard

Leighton Buzzard is a town in Bedfordshire, England, close to the Chiltern Hills and lying among Luton and Milton Keynes. It appends Linslade and the name Leighton Linslade is once in a while used to allude to the blend of the two towns; parts of this article apply to Linslade and in addition Leedon. For neighborhood government purposes, the town is a piece of the Central Bedfordshire area and is regulated mutually with Linslade as the common ward of Leighton-Linslade.

There are ious hypotheses concerning the determination of the town's name, however the in all probability is that "Leighton" originated from Old English Leah-tun, signifying 'cultivate in a clearing in the forested areas'. The "Vulture" was included by the Dean of Lincoln, in whose bishopric the town lay in the 12th century Having two networks called "Leighton" and looking for a few methods for separating them, he included the name of his neighborhood Prebendary or delegate to that of the town. Around then it was a Theobald de Busar thus throughout the years the town ended up known as Leighton Buzzard. The other Leighton moved toward becoming Leighton Bromswold.