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Luton ( , ) is a large town, borough and unitary authority area of Bedfordshire, England. Luton and its near neighbours, Dunstable and Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area with a population of about 258,000. It is located east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, north-northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.
Luton is home to League Two team Luton Town Football Club, whose history includes several spells in the top flight of the English league as well as a Football League Cup triumph in 1988. They play at Kenilworth Road stadium, which has been their home since 1905.
London Luton Airport, opened in 1938, is one of England's major airports. During the Second World War it doubled as an RAF base.
The University of Bedfordshire is based in the town.
The Luton Carnival, which was traditionally been held on the Whitsun May bank holiday, is the largest one-day carnival in Europe. In 2012, it was moved to July to coincide with the Olympic Torch Relay and celebrations. Luton Carnival was transferred from Luton Borough Council to UK Centre for Carnival Arts in 2013, and since then has been held on the Bank Holiday Sunday instead in order to save the enhanced costs of operating on a bank holiday.
The town was for many years famous for hat-making, and was also home to a large Vauxhall Motors factory; the head office of Vauxhall Motors is still situated in the town. Car production at the plant began in 1905 and continued until 2002, where commercial vehicle production remains.
Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire. It may also refer to the following.
Places- Luton, Devon, village near Newton Abbot in Devon, England.
- Luton, Kent, town in Medway near Chatham, Kent, England
- Luton Hoo, country house near Luton, Bedfordshire
- Luton, Iowa, town in Woodbury County, Iowa near to Sioux City, USA.
- Luton, Ontario, town in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada near to Lake Erie.
- Luton, Philippines town in Province of Cebu, Central Visayas, Philippines.
- London Luton Airport in Bedfordshire, England
- Daniel Luton (1821–1901), Canadian farmer and political figure
- Lord Evelyn Luton, main character in James A. Michener's novel Journey
- Major General Robert Marsden Luton, Director of Medical Services, Royal Canadian Army during WWII
- Luton Shelton, football player from Jamaica playing for Sheffield United.
- Luton body, style of commercial vehicle body
- Luton v Lessels (2002), High Court of Australia case
- Luton Town F.C., football (soccer) club based in Luton, Bedfordshire.
- A fictional planet in The Rules of Luton, an episode of Space 1999
- Luton system, a pairing system used in tournaments for games, especially chess
Luton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Luton in Bedfordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The Bedfordshire Southern or Luton constituency was created for the 1885 general election as a county division of Bedfordshire, when the former Bedfordshire county constituency was abolished.
Luton became a borough constituency in 1950 (1).
At the February 1974 general election the Borough constituency was abolished, and replaced by two new borough constituencies: Luton East and Luton West.
Usage examples of "luton".
February 1962 when Mr Ronald Wildman of Luton, Bedfordshire, was starting out to deliver a new Vauxhall car to an address in Swansea.
And the next day was the last on which she would see him, for half way between Northampton and Luton they would part company, she to travel on to London, the rest of them to go their various ways and the two professors to go across country to the small village near Hal stead where Professor Wyllie lived.
Paul had worked for fifteen years in the same dreary office in Luton and, from what I had gathered during the course of investigating his life he hadn't done much to keep fit.
People like Neil Kaas, a Luton fan who took me and my half-brother to watch Arsenal at Kenilworth Road as his guest in the days when Luton’s ban on away fans was in operation, are obsessives with all traces of timidity or self-doubt removed.
He was expecting a ten-point drop mediated via an options trade – payment for the use of the anonymous luggage remixer that routed his old suitcase to Mombasa and in return sent this new one to him via the left-luggage office in Luton – but this is more serious.
So when his friends hear the results on a Saturday, on national radio and television, or on the tannoys of other League grounds, they think, simply, “Neil Kaas” when they hear the Luton score.