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 and North Western Railway replaced the first station in February 1859 by another more permanent structure located to the south. The new building had an imposing frontage featuring arched windows. Access to the Dunstable branch was controlled by Leighton No. 2 signal box situated to the north of the station, while the actual branch signals were controlled by the main line box to the south. In 1874, land was purchased to the south of the station alongside the Dunstable branch for the construction of goods sidings, which eventually became known as "Wing Yard". The LNWR was absorbed by the London,