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Luton

Luton is a large town in , some 35 mi north of London. It's a multicultural town with a population of about 200,000. It used to have a straw and hat-making trade, hence "The Hatters" nickname of Luton football club; a couple of factories remain along the Old Bedford Road.
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  • Type: Town with 203,000 residents
  • Description: large town in Bedfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Luton Urban” and “Luton, Bedfordshire”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Luton Airport and Kenilworth Road.

Aerodrome
Photo: Steff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
London is an international airport located in Luton, England, situated 1.7 miles east of the town centre, and is the fourth-busiest airport serving London.

Stadium
Photo: Barry Ephgrave, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, known affectionately as The Kenny, is a football stadium in the area of Bury Park, Luton, , England. It has been the home ground of Luton Town Football Club since 1905.

Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on the Midland Main Line in England, serving south Luton and in Bedfordshire. The station is situated in Luton's Park Town district, being 29.27 miles from between to the south and to the north.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wigmore and Round Green.

Suburb
is a suburb of Luton about 2 miles east north-east of the town centre, and a ward of the Borough of Luton, in the ceremonial county of , England. is situated 2 miles northeast of Luton.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Luton just over 1 mile north-east of the town centre, and a ward of the Borough of Luton, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Suburb
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is a former village and now a suburb of Luton, in the ceremonial county of , England; it lies in the north-west of the town. The current council ward is roughly bounded by Vincent Road, Torquay Drive and High Street to the north, Roman Road and Stoneygate Road to the south, the M1 to the west, and Marsh Road and Park to the east. is situated 3 miles northwest of Luton.

Luton

Latitude
51.8784° or 51° 52′ 42″ north
Longitude
-0.4153° or 0° 24′ 55″ west
Population
203,000
Elevation
384 feet (117 metres)
Open location code
9C3XVHHM+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1879089350
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2643339
Wiki­data ID
Q203889
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Luton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لوتن”
  • Arabic: “لوتون”
  • Aragonese: “Luton”
  • Armenian: “Լութոն”
  • Asturian: “Luton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luton”
  • Bashkir: “Лутон”
  • Basque: “Luton”
  • Belarusian: “Лутан”
  • Bengali: “লুটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Лутън”
  • Catalan: “Luton”
  • Cebuano: “Luton”
  • Chinese: “Luton”
  • Chinese: “卢顿”
  • Chinese: “盧頓”
  • Chinese: “魯頓”
  • Czech: “Luton”
  • Danish: “Luton”
  • Dutch: “Luton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوتن”
  • Esperanto: “Luton”
  • Esperanto: “Lutono”
  • Finnish: “Luton”
  • French: “Luton”
  • Galician: “Luton”
  • German: “Luton”
  • Greek: “Λούτον”
  • Gujarati: “લ્યુટન”
  • Gujarati: “લ્યુટોન”
  • Hebrew: “לוטון”
  • Hungarian: “Luton”
  • Icelandic: “Luton”
  • Indonesian: “Luton”
  • Irish: “Luton”
  • Italian: “Luton”
  • Japanese: “ルートン”
  • Kannada: “ಲುಟನ್”
  • Korean: “루턴”
  • Ladin: “Luton”
  • Latin: “Lutonia”
  • Latvian: “Lūtona”
  • Lithuanian: “Luton”
  • Lithuanian: “Lutonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Luton”
  • Macedonian: “Лутон”
  • Malay: “Luton”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Luton”
  • Moksha: “Лутон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Luton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luton”
  • Norwegian: “Luton”
  • Ossetian: “Лутон”
  • Persian: “لوتن”
  • Persian: “لوتون”
  • Polish: “Luton”
  • Portuguese: “Luton”
  • Quechua: “Luton”
  • Romanian: “Luton”
  • Russian: “Лутон”
  • Scots: “Luton”
  • Serbian: “Luton”
  • Serbian: “Лутон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luton”
  • Silesian: “Luton”
  • Slovak: “Luton”
  • Slovenian: “Luton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوتون”
  • Spanish: “Luton”
  • Swahili: “Luton”
  • Swedish: “Luton”
  • Tajik: “Лутон”
  • Tamil: “லூடன்”
  • Tatar: “Лутон”
  • Telugu: “లుటన్”
  • Telugu: “లూటన్”
  • Telugu: “ల్యూటన్”
  • Thai: “ลูตัน”
  • Turkish: “Luton”
  • Ukrainian: “Лутон”
  • Urdu: “لاوٹن”
  • Urdu: “لوٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Luton”
  • Volapük: “Luton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luton”
  • Welsh: “Luton”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢顿”
  • Yiddish: “לוטאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧頓”

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