Reference
PSLB
Title
Leighton Buzzard Petty Sessional Division
Admin/biog history
The Leighton Buzzard Division was used as a meeting place for Petty Sessions as early as 1825, the constituent parishes including Woburn, where the majority of meetings seem to have been held. Thus, on the creation of Bedfordshire divisions in 1830, Woburn was made a Petty Sessional Division rather than Leighton Buzzard. In 1854, however, a separate Leighton Buzzard Division was constituted. In 1875 the Police Districts of Leighton Buzzard and Woburn were amalgamated, though the Petty Sessional Divisions remained separate. From the creation of the division the parishes included in it were Billington; Eaton Bray; Eggington; Heath & Reach; Leighton Buzzard and Stanbridge.
On the abolition of Woburn Division in 1953, the parishes Aspley Guise; Aspley Heath; Battlesden; Hockliffe; Milton Bryan; Potsgrove and Woburn were transferred to the Leighton Buzzard Division
Level of description
sub-fonds