Place:Linslade, Buckinghamshire, England

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Linslade is a small town, which was historically a small village and rural parish in Buckinghamshire. It lies immediately west of the market town of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. When the London and Birmingham Railway was built in the 1830s it passed through Linslade parish, and Leighton Buzzard railway station is actually in Linslade, not Leighton Buzzard. After the station opened in 1838 the area around it rapidly developed into the town of Linslade, whilst the original village of Linslade to the north of the parish consequently became known as Old Linslade.

In 1965 Linslade was transferred from Buckinghamshire to Bedfordshire and the two town councils of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade were merged to form a single town council known as Leighton Linslade. Apart from administratively, the name 'Leighton Linslade' has not passed into popular usage - the separate names Leighton Buzzard and Linslade remain in common use, whilst properties in Linslade have Leighton Buzzard postal addresses.

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Linslade is an English town, located on the Bedfordshire side of the Bedfordshire-Buckinghamshire border (and roughly a third-way between London and Birmingham). It abuts onto the town of Leighton Buzzard with which it forms the civil parish of Leighton-Linslade. Linslade was transferred from Buckinghamshire in 1965, and was previously a separate urban district in its own right. It remained part of the Diocese of Oxford until 2008 when it joined Leighton Buzzard in the Diocese of St Albans. The original Anglo-Saxon settlement of Linslade, which was prominent during the 13th century, was not located at the modern site, but is to be found further north, and survives today as the hamlet of Old Linslade. The present location superseded the original during the 1840s, after massive growth associated with the construction of the Grand Union Canal and—particularly—the London and Birmingham Railway (Now known as the West Coast Main Line). Linslade underwent a second major period of expansion, again associated with the railways, during the 1970s.

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