LEIGHTON

'Leighton' is the name of a number of places:

★ Leighton, Alabama

★ Leighton, Iowa

★ Leighton Township, Michigan

★ Leighton, Cambridgeshire

★ Leighton, Cheshire

★ Leighton, North Yorkshire

★ Leighton Reservoir- a small reservoir near Leighton North Yorkshire.

★ RSPB Leighton Moss, English nature reserve

★ Leighton Buzzard, a town in Bedfordshire, England

★ Leighton House Museum, a museum in London, United Kingdom

★ Leighton Library, an historic library in Dunblane

★ Leighton, Western Australia, a beachside locality in Western Australia
People called 'Leighton' include:

★ Alexander Leighton (1587-1644) Scottish physician and infamous puritan pamphleteer

★ Alexander H. Leighton (1908-)

★ Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922)English painter

★ Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830 - 1896), English painter and sculptor

★ F. Thomson Leighton, computer scientist and co-founder of Akamai Technologies

★ Baron Leighton of St Mellons, UK peerage title

★ Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer

★ Kenneth Leighton, English composer

★ Laura Leighton (1968 - ), US actor

★ Robert Leighton (1611 - 1684), Scottish prelate

★ Warner E Leighton Film Editor, mainly for Hanna-Barbera
As a first name:

★ Leighton James (1953 - ), Welsh footballer

★ Leighton Rees (1940 - 2003), Welsh dart player