Leighton may refer to:

Places

In Australia: * Leighton, Western Australia, a beachside locality In the United Kingdom: *

Leighton, Cambridgeshire Leighton Bromswold (also known as Leighton) is a small village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Leighton lies approximately west of Huntingdon. Leighton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambr ...

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 ...

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 In religion, a prophet or p ...

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. Work on t ...

* Leighton, Shropshire *

Leighton Buzzard 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 northwes ...

, a town in Bedfordshire, England *

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 ...

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 ...

, including Leighton Model Farm *

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 *

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 *

Leighton Library The Leighton Library, or Bibliotheca Leightoniana, in The Cross, Dunblane, is the oldest purpose built library in Scotland and also has a well-documented history as one of the earliest public subscription libraries in Scotland. Its collection of ...

, an historic library in Dunblane, Scotland *

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: * Leighton, Alabama *

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. ...

Leighton Township, Michigan Leighton Township is a civil township of Allegan County, Michigan, Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,001 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, up from 4,934 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census. ...

In Asia: *

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

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), New ...

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), Amer ...

Other uses

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 *

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 mor ...

, a construction contractor headquartered in Hong Kong *

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 *

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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