Leighton Buzzard

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Leighton Buzzard

Total population

37,000

Coordinates51.92°, -0.66°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Leighton Buzzard is a market town in the civil parish of Leighton–Linslade, in the Central Bedfordshire district, in Bedfordshire, England, in the southwest of the county and close to the Buckinghamshire border. It lies between Aylesbury, Tring, Luton/Dunstable and Milton Keynes, near the Chiltern Hills.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Adam Ficek

English musician

John Farey

English geologist and writer

Christopher Herrick

British organist

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Daniel Greaves

British screenwriter and film producer

Derek Redmond

British athlete

Robert Douglas

actor, director (1909–1999)

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Sue Limb

British humorous writer

Matthew Mead

English minister

Philip O'Connor

British writer and surrealist poet (1916–1998)

Thomas Fremantle

Royal Navy admiral (1765-1819)

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Jonathan Dollimore

English sociologist and social theorist

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Derek Reid

British mycologist (1927-2006)

Adam Cunnington

British footballer (born 1987)

Al Murray

British comedian (born 1968)

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Alan Biley

English footballer (born 1957)

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Albert Kempster

sport shooter (1874-1952)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Tring
  8.5 mi away
• Flitwick
  9.4 mi away
• Ampthill
  10.7 mi away
• Berkhamsted
  11.5 mi away
• Wolverton
  11.8 mi away · pop. 12,492
• Buckingham
  15 mi away
• Olney
  16.5 mi away
• Kings Langley
  16.7 mi away
• Amersham
  16.7 mi away
• Thame
  17.8 mi away
• Bicester
  20.9 mi away
• Rothersthorpe
  23.5 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Leighton Buzzard

[Report 1898]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1898

[Report 1904]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1904

[Report 1897]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1897

[Report 1902]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1902

[Report 1900]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1900

[Report 1958]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1958

[Report 1955]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1955

[Report 1959]

Leighton Buzzard (England). Local Board · 1959

Search results from Open Library.

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