Linslade
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Linslade (formerly Linchlade) is a village in Bedfordshire, England. It is located to the west of (and joined to) Leighton Buzzard. It was once in Buckinghamshire; it now sits just to the east of the border with that county.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'river crossing near a spring'. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 966 it was recorded as Hlincgelad.
In 1251 a royal charter was granted to William de Beauchamp to hold a weekly market in Linchlade, on account of the place being a site of major pilgrimage. The resort for the pilgrimage was an ancient holy spring, though it was unconsecrated and thus was declared unholy by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1299, and the vicar who encouraged the pilgrimage was tried and executed as a heretic. The royal charter to hold the market was removed shortly afterwards.
The Victorian parish church in Linslade is dedicated to St Barnabus.
The present Linslade was relocated from what is now called Old Linslade, a village a mile or so away, following an outbreak of bubonic plague in the middle ages. Old Linslade Church and some cottages still remain. Old Linslade Church is still in use as is its cemetery.
The Great Train Robbery was held on a site near Bridego Bridge, between the villages of Cheddington and Linslade.