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See also:LEIGHTON See also:BUZZARD , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:southern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Bedfordshire, See also:England, 40 M. N.W. of See also:London by the London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 6331. It lies in the See also:flat valley of the Ouzel, a tributary of the See also:Ouse, sheltered to See also:east and See also:west by See also:low hills. The See also:river here forms the See also:county boundary with See also:Buckinghamshire. The See also:Grand Junction See also:canal follows its course, and gives the town extensive See also:water-communications. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of All See also:Saints is cruciform, with central See also:tower and See also:spire. It is mainly See also:Early See also:English, and a See also:fine example of the See also:style; but some of the windows including the See also:nave See also:clerestory, and the beautiful carved wooden roof, are Perpendicular. The west See also:door has See also:good early See also:iron-See also:work; and on one of the tower-See also:arch pillars are some remarkable early carvings of jocular See also:character, one of which represents a See also:man assaulted by a woman with a ladle. The market See also:cross is of the 14th See also:century, much restored, having an open See also:arcade supporting a See also:pinnacle, with flying buttresses. The statues in its niches are See also:modern, but the originals are placed on the exterior of the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall. Leighton has a considerable agricultural See also:trade, and some See also:industry in See also:straw-plaiting. Across the Ouzel in
Buckinghamshire, where Leighton railway station is situated, is the urban district of Linslade (pop. 2157).
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