Leighton Buzzard Light Railway 19th century sand was carried by horse carts from quarries south of the town to be shipped on the Dunstable-Leighton Buzzard railway. The carts damaged roads and resulted in claims for compensation against the quarry owners from Bedfordshire County Council. At the end of the century steam wagons were introduced which increased the damage to roads. The outbreak of the First World War cut off supplies of foundry sand from Belgium. Sand was needed for ammunition factories and new sources were sought. Leighton Buzzard sands proved well suited and production increased. After 1919 the quarry companies were told they could
Church of All Saints, Leighton Buzzard Reynolds MA 1773 Henry Osman BA 1781 William Oddie BA 1786 John Wilson BA 1788 John Wilson BA 1849 Joseph Stevenson MA 1862 Thomas Wallis Richards MA 1901 George Frederick Hills MA 1933 Sidney Ernest Swann MA 1937 Arthur Thomas Stephens MA 1943 Stanley John Forrest BA 1954 Canon John J F Scammell AKC 1981 Peter Harold Whittaker AKC 1992 Canon John Anthony L Hulbert MA 2003 Canon Grant Fellows BD AKC PREBENDARIES OF LEIGHTON BUZZARD to 1926 As recorded in "Leighton Buzzard and Its Hamlets", published 1928 by Robert Richmond Theobald de Busar - Vicar of the Church in