Leighton Buzzard Urban District was combined with Linslade parish to create the new parish of Leighton-Linslade encompassing the twin towns of Linslade and Leighton Buzzard. Leighton Buzzard Urban District Leighton Buzzard was an urban district in Bedfordshire, England from 1894 to 1965. It comprised the single civil parish of Leighton Buzzard. The urban district was created in 1894 from the abolution of the Leighton Buzzard urban sanitary district. In 1933 the Eaton Bray Rural District was abolished and the area transferred to enlarge Leighton Buzzard UD. As part of a county boundary change in 1965 Leighton Buzzard UD was abolished along with Linslade Urban
Woburn Abbey two Scotland Yard detectives to imprison him in order to find out the identity of a criminal mastermind known as The Fence—who turns out to be the class teacher who was supervising Diamond and the other children on the school trip to Woburn Abbey. In 1977 and again in 2003 singer Neil Diamond held a series of concerts on the front lawn of the Abbey. The 1977 concerts were a part of a television programme broadcast in the United States. In film and television, Woburn Abbey has been used as a filming location for films and programmes including "The Iron