Leighton may refer to:
Places
In Australia:
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Leighton, Western Australia, a beachside locality
In the United Kingdom:
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Leighton, Cambridgeshire
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Leighton, Cheshire
Leighton is a scattered settlement and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies immediately north west of Crewe. The parish also includes the vill ...
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Leighton, North Yorkshire
Leighton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Healey in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is near Leighton Reservoir that provides for Yorkshire Water.
Notable residents
The religious prophet
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Leighton Reservoir
Leighton Reservoir is a reservoir which drains via the River Burn to the River Ure in North Yorkshire, England. It neighbours Roundhill Reservoir and is about west of Masham. It takes its name from the nearby village of Leighton.
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Leighton, Shropshire
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Leighton Buzzard, a town in Bedfordshire, England
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Leighton Hall, Lancashire
Leighton Hall is a historic house to the west of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
History
It was the seat of the 1642–1673 Middle ...
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Leighton Hall, Powys
Leighton Hall is an estate located to the east of Welshpool in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys, in Wales. Leighton Hall is a listed grade I property. It is located on the opposite side of the valley of the river Severn to Powis ...
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Leighton House, Wiltshire
Army Officer Selection Board (AOSB) is an assessment centre used by the British Army as part of the officer selection process for the regular army and Army Reserve and related scholarship schemes. The board is based at Leighton House, Westbury ...
, a country house
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Leighton House Museum
The Leighton House Museum is an art museum in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.
The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), who commi ...
, a museum in London
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Leighton Library, an historic library in Dunblane, Scotland
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RSPB Leighton Moss
Leighton Moss RSPB reserve is a nature reserve in Lancashire, England, which has been in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds since 1964. It is situated at Silverdale near Carnforth, on the edge of Morecambe Bay and in the ...
, English nature reserve
In the United States:
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Leighton, Alabama
Leighton is a town in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Florence - Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area known as "The Shoals". At the 2020 census, the population was 665. Leighton has been hit by several tornadoes ...
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Leighton, Iowa
Leighton is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. The population was 158 in the 2020 census, an increase from 153 in the 2000 census.
Geography
Leighton's longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal form are 41.338530, -92.786800.
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Leighton Township, Michigan
Leighton Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,001 at the 2020 census, up from 4,934 at the 2010 census.
Communities
Corning is a tiny unincorporated community at near the center of ...
In Asia:
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Leighton Hill
Leighton Hill () is a hill between Causeway Bay and Happy Valley, and the south of Leighton Road, Hong Kong. There were several air-raid shelters at the downhill of Leighton Hill to protect Victoria City from Japanese occupation during the Batt ...
, Hong Kong
People
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Leighton (given name) Leighton is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Leighton Baines (born 1984), English footballer
* Leighton Clarkson (born 2001), English footballer
* Leighton Dye (1901–1977), American hurdler
* Leighton A. Hope (1921–1998), N ...
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Leighton (surname) Leighton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexander Leighton (1587–1644), Scottish physician and pamphleteer
* Alexander H. Leighton (1908–2007), sociologist and psychiatrist
* Amanda Leighton (born 1993), A ...
Other uses
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CIMIC Group
CIMIC Group Limited (formerly Leighton Holdings) is an Australian construction contractor. It is active in the telecommunications, engineering and infrastructure, building and property, mining and resources, and environmental services industries ...
, Australian project development and contracting company until 2015 known as Leighton Holdings
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Leighton Asia
Leighton Asia is an Asia-Pacific construction contractor, a part of the CIMIC Group, an Australian project development and contracting group. Leighton Asia is currently headquartered in Hong Kong, and has been operating in the continent for m ...
, a construction contractor headquartered in Hong Kong
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Leighton Middle School
Leighton Buzzard ( ) is a market town 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. It is north ...
, a middle school in Leighton Buzzard, England
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Leighton Park School
Leighton Park School is a co-educational Independent school (United Kingdom), independent school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading, Berkshire, Reading in South East England. The school's ethos is closely tied to the Quaker values, havin ...
, an independent secondary school in Reading, England
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Leyton (disambiguation)
Leyton is a district of east London.
Leyton may also refer to:
* Leyton (UK Parliament constituency)
* Leyton (ward), an electoral ward of the London Borough of Waltham Forest
* Municipal Borough of Leyton, a local government district in southwe ...
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Layton (disambiguation)
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