Leighton Buzzard Urban District 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 District in Buckinghamshire and the new Bedfordshire urban district of Leighton-Linslade was created. The parish comprising the town of Leighton Buzzard
Leighton Buzzard railway station 4 are served by slower London Northwestern railway services to/from London Euston and by Southern services between East Croydon and Milton Keynes Central. Page's Park railway station, terminus for the "Leighton Buzzard Light Railway" (a narrow gauge heritage railway), is on the opposite side of the town. The first station simply known as "Leighton" was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway on 9 April 1838 as part of the first section of its line from to Denbigh Hall. The line had originally been planned to pass through Buckingham but opposition from the Duke of Buckingham ensured that it forced