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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Kings_Arms_and_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg/240px-Kings_Arms_and_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Kings_Arms_and_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg/360px-Kings_Arms_and_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Kings_Arms_and_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg/480px-Kings_Arms_and_All_Saints%27_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2499" data-file-height="1874" /></a></span><div>King's Arms and All Saints' Church</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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/></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Houghton Regis</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">19,692 (Parish, 2021)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span class="nowrap">18,820 (Built up area, 2021)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">Civil parish</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist 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title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_of_England" title="East of England">East</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">DUNSTABLE</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/LU_postcode_area" title="LU postcode area">LU5</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01582</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_Police" title="Bedfordshire Police">Bedfordshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_and_Luton_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedfordshire and Luton Fire and Rescue Service">Bedfordshire and Luton</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_of_England_Ambulance_Service" title="East of England Ambulance Service">East of England</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" 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("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Bedfordshire" title="List of places in Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Houghton_Regis&params=51.9039_N_0.5247_W_region:GB_type:city"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°54′14″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°31′29″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.9039°N 0.5247°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.9039; -0.5247</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Houghton Regis</b> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/aʊ/: 'ou' in 'mouth'">aʊ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/dʒ/: 'j' in 'jam'">dʒ</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span> is a market town and <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bedfordshire" title="Central Bedfordshire">Central Bedfordshire</a> district of <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a>, England. </p><p>The parish includes the hamlets of <a href="/wiki/Bidwell,_Bedfordshire" title="Bidwell, Bedfordshire">Bidwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thorn,_Bedfordshire" title="Thorn, Bedfordshire">Thorn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sewell,_Bedfordshire" title="Sewell, Bedfordshire">Sewell</a>. Houghton Regis, together with its <a href="/wiki/Geographic_contiguity" title="Geographic contiguity">contiguous</a> neighbours of <a href="/wiki/Dunstable" title="Dunstable">Dunstable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, form the <a href="/wiki/Luton/Dunstable_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Luton/Dunstable Urban Area">Luton/Dunstable Urban Area</a>; this is a <a href="/wiki/Conurbation" title="Conurbation">conurbation</a> with a population over 286,000.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name Houghton comes from the Saxon word 'hoe' meaning the spur of a hill, and 'tun' meaning a village. By the 11th century, much of <a href="/wiki/South_Bedfordshire" title="South Bedfordshire">South Bedfordshire</a> had become royal land and Houghton became known as Houghton Regis or King's Houghton to distinguish it from the other Houghton in Bedfordshire, which became known as <a href="/wiki/Houghton_Conquest" title="Houghton Conquest">Houghton Conquest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_the_town">Before the town</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Before the town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Relics of <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a> man, such as flint implements and the bones of contemporary wild animals, suggest prehistoric settlement. At <a href="/wiki/Maiden_Bower_hillfort" title="Maiden Bower hillfort">Maiden Bower</a> within Houghton Regis CP, near <a href="/wiki/Sewell,_Bedfordshire" title="Sewell, Bedfordshire">Sewell</a>, there is an <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> <a href="/wiki/Hill_fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Hill fort">hill fort</a>. This is clearly marked on the Ordnance Survey maps. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dunstablemap_1944.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Dunstablemap_1944.jpg/250px-Dunstablemap_1944.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Dunstablemap_1944.jpg/375px-Dunstablemap_1944.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Dunstablemap_1944.jpg/500px-Dunstablemap_1944.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2368" data-file-height="1648" /></a><figcaption>A 1944 OS map of Houghton Regis</figcaption></figure> <p>Maiden Bower has some of the ramparts showing through the edge of an old chalk quarry<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where there are <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> remains of an older fort. According to W.H. Matthews (Mazes and Labyrinths, 1922), a turf maze once existed at "Maiden Bower".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Icknield_Way_Path" title="Icknield Way Path">Icknield Way Path</a> passes through the parish on its 110-mile journey from <a href="/wiki/Ivinghoe_Beacon" title="Ivinghoe Beacon">Ivinghoe Beacon</a> in Buckinghamshire to <a href="/wiki/Knettishall_Heath" title="Knettishall Heath">Knettishall Heath</a> in Suffolk. The Icknield Way Trail, a multi-user route for walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists also passes through the parish. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Records_of_the_town">Records of the town</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Records of the town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Houghton Regis is considerably older than <a href="/wiki/Dunstable" title="Dunstable">Dunstable</a>, and it is mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> when it was called Houstone.<sup id="cite_ref-Domesday2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Domesday2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of the Domesday Survey a great part of what is now Dunstable was included in Houghton parish. When <a href="/wiki/Henry_I_of_England" title="Henry I of England">Henry I</a> founded Dunstable he gave in compensation to the men of Houghton a wood called Buckwood.<sup id="cite_ref-british-history.ac.uk_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-british-history.ac.uk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At that time it paid in tax the large amount of three pounds by weight and twenty shillings of blanch silver (to the <a href="/wiki/William_the_conqueror" class="mw-redirect" title="William the conqueror">King</a>) and one ounce of gold for the Sheriff.<sup id="cite_ref-Domesday_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Domesday-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The men of Houghton claimed to be exempt from tolls in Dunstable market.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The inhabitants of Houghton Regis were for long employed in <a href="/wiki/Straw_plaiting" title="Straw plaiting">straw plaiting</a>. In 1689 they and those of neighbouring villages petitioned against the Bill that made it compulsory to wear woollen hats, pointing out that the straw-plaiters would be ruined and that the farmers also would suffer, as they now obtained good prices for their straw, and English wool not being suitable for hatmaking, they would not be in any way compensated.<sup id="cite_ref-british-history.ac.uk_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-british-history.ac.uk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:All_Saints_Church,_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/All_Saints_Church%2C_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg/220px-All_Saints_Church%2C_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/All_Saints_Church%2C_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg/330px-All_Saints_Church%2C_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/All_Saints_Church%2C_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg/440px-All_Saints_Church%2C_Houghton_Regis_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5053147.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Church_of_All_Saints,_Houghton_Regis" title="Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis">All Saints Church</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Bordered by the <a href="/wiki/Chiltern_Hills" title="Chiltern Hills">Chiltern Hills</a>, the town was once a small village that had its character changed when it was earmarked for a massive "<a href="/wiki/London_overspill" title="London overspill">London overspill</a>" estate in the 1950s and 60s. The only remains of the <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rectory" class="mw-redirect" title="Rectory">rectory</a> land and cottage demesnes around the small village centre are names such as Tithe Farm Road. An indication of the planners' attempts to make the London migrants feel at home is the naming of the local estate roads after London landmarks; <a href="/wiki/Chelsea,_London" title="Chelsea, London">Chelsea</a> Gardens is an example. </p><p>Remnants of the town's past are still apparent with, for example, the fifteenth century <a href="/wiki/Church_of_All_Saints,_Houghton_Regis" title="Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis">Parish Church of All Saints</a> (formerly St Michaels) with an excellent example of a <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a> tower<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the former Squire's residence of Houghton Hall, built in the eighteenth century. </p><p>Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, many of the High Street shops were demolished along with a chapel to make way for industrial units, many of which have since been demolished themselves. The main shop in town was a Wavy Line store, which has since been used as a motorbike and car showroom. A fish and chip shop, Tansley's, was at the entrance to what was the access road into the Co-op Store; the current fish and chip shop on Bedford Road was previously occupied by Georges, a tobacconist and confectioner but in the early 1900s was a public house. In front of the existing closed All Saints Parish Church graveyard, facing onto the High Street, was a row of cottages, once the workhouses, complete with village lock-up at the end of the terrace. The door to the former lock-up can now be found on display at the <a href="/wiki/Stockwood_Discovery_Centre" title="Stockwood Discovery Centre">Stockwood Discovery Centre</a> museum in <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>. The White House, the home of a Miss Freeman, a school teacher and aunt of <a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a>, who lived in the town during his youth, plus Jasper Perry's green grocer and Birds bakery stood on the High Street on the opposite side of the road to the church. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Townsend <a href="/wiki/Industrial_park" title="Industrial park">Industrial Estate</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> built on the former farm of the same name, includes the roads of Townsend Farm Road, Portland Close, Blackburn Road, and Westbury Close. To the south of Houghton Hall Park is the Houghton Hall Business Park.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Located here are Whitbread, Aldwyck Housing Group, NICEIC Group, Renault Trucks (UK), BRS, ArjoHuntleigh Group. To the south east of this estate is the Lovett Way Woodside estate.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Businesses located here include Disability Resource Centre, Centrebus, Hermes, DPD, Premier Cables and Connells Group. </p><p>Whitbread PLC, which manages <a href="/wiki/Premier_Inn" title="Premier Inn">Premier Inn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beefeater_(restaurant)" title="Beefeater (restaurant)">Beefeater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brewers_Fayre" title="Brewers Fayre">Brewers Fayre</a> and <a href="/wiki/Table_Table" class="mw-redirect" title="Table Table">Table Table</a>, is headquartered on the Houghton Regis/Dunstable industrial estate. <a href="/wiki/Costa_Coffee" title="Costa Coffee">Costa Coffee</a>, the world's second largest coffee chain, was acquired from Whitbread in August 2018 for £3.9 billion by <a href="/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company" title="The Coca-Cola Company">The Coca-Cola Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Co-op store was destroyed by fire in June 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The store later re-opened on a smaller footprint, but was closed down in 2014, and demolished in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Morrisons medium-sized supermarket opened in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Tesco Express store in Bedford Square shopping centre closed in March 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_community">Culture and community</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Culture and community"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png/250px-Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png/375px-Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png/500px-Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway_route.png 2x" data-file-width="708" data-file-height="464" /></a><figcaption>Luton to Houghton Regis busway</figcaption></figure> <p>Houghton Regis Town Council organises several regular free events every year. These include Pancake Race, Easter Egg Hunt, May Fayre, Carnival, Classic and Vintage Car Show, the latter replaced by Houghton Rocks from 2016 which included the Classic cars and a boot sale with fairground.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Greenway and the route through Dunstable and Houghton Regis forms part of National Route 6 of the National Cycle Network. This provides walking and cycling routes between Milton Keynes, Luton and London. </p><p>Central Bedfordshire Council allowed Stevenage Leisure Limited (who operate the Houghton Regis Leisure Centre as <i>Lifestyles (@) Houghton</i>) to carry out major renovation.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Luton_to_Dunstable_Busway" title="Luton to Dunstable Busway">Luton to Dunstable Busway</a> <a href="/wiki/Guided_bus" title="Guided bus">guided bus</a> system (route pictured) opened in 2013, proving <a href="/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit" title="Bus rapid transit">bus rapid transit</a> services from Houghton Regis to <a href="/wiki/Luton_Airport" title="Luton Airport">Luton Airport</a> via <a href="/wiki/Dunstable" title="Dunstable">Dunstable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> Winning American Actor <a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a> lived, and went to school, in Houghton Regis. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Primary schools in the town include Hawthorn Park Community Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Houghton Regis Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> St Vincent's RC Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thomas Whitehead CE Academy,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thornhill Primary School<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Tithe Farm Primary School.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Secondary schools serving the area include <a href="/wiki/Houstone_School" title="Houstone School">Houstone School</a><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/All_Saints_Academy,_Dunstable" title="All Saints Academy, Dunstable">All Saints Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Chiltern_School" title="The Chiltern School">The Chiltern School</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Special_school" class="mw-redirect" title="Special school">special school</a> which has a campus in Houghton Regis. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Central_Bedfordshire_College" title="Central Bedfordshire College">Central Bedfordshire College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bedford_College,_Bedford" title="Bedford College, Bedford">Bedford College</a> have sites in Houghton Regis, where they offer a range of <a href="/wiki/Further_education" title="Further education">further education</a> courses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plans_for_the_area">Plans for the area</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Plans for the area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A5-M1_Link_(Dunstable_Northern_Bypass)"><span id="A5-M1_Link_.28Dunstable_Northern_Bypass.29"></span>A5-M1 Link (Dunstable Northern Bypass)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: A5-M1 Link (Dunstable Northern Bypass)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">A5-M1 Link (Dunstable Northern Bypass)</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png/250px-Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png/375px-Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png/500px-Proposed_Dunstable_and_Luton_Northern_Bypass.png 2x" data-file-width="658" data-file-height="440" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The route of the Dunstable Northern Bypass proposal and route options for the connecting Luton Northern Bypass.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data">Central Bedfordshire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Proposer</th><td class="infobox-data">Highways Agency</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Approved</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Road</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cost estimate</th><td class="infobox-data">£171 million to £217 million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Start date</th><td class="infobox-data">2014–2015</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Completion date</th><td class="infobox-data">2016–2017</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Geometry</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://umapper.s3.amazonaws.com/maps/kml/45349.kml">KML</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <a href="/wiki/A5_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A5 road (Great Britain)">A5</a> was extended to the <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway" title="M1 motorway">M1</a> at a new junction 11A, and opened on 11 May 2017. Here, it is intended to join with a proposed <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Luton#Luton_Northern_Bypass" title="Transport in Luton">Luton Northern Bypass</a> to form a northern bypass for the wider <a href="/wiki/Luton/Dunstable_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Luton/Dunstable Urban Area">conurbation</a>. The new road reduces traffic congestion in Houghton Regis and <a href="/wiki/Dunstable" title="Dunstable">Dunstable</a>, and reduces journey times for long-distance traffic. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Woodside_Link">Woodside Link</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Woodside Link"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1.8 mi (2.9 km) A5505 Woodside Link opened on 13 April 2017. It connects the Woodside Estate industrial area of Dunstable and Houghton Regis to Junction 11a of the M1 motorway.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The road will also provide access to a new development area north and east of Houghton Regis, where 5,150 new homes are to be built and 30 hectares of employment land are to be developed by 2031.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Central Bedfordshire Council delivered the £38.3m road scheme with contributions of £20m from SEMLEP's Local Growth Deal,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> £5m from the UK government's Local Pinch Point Fund<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and £1m of developer contributions. Construction started in spring 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Houghton_Regis_North_Framework_Plan_(HRN1)"><span id="Houghton_Regis_North_Framework_Plan_.28HRN1.29"></span>Houghton Regis North Framework Plan (HRN1)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Houghton Regis North Framework Plan (HRN1)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This plan includes a proposed north of Houghton Regis urban extension of 6,950 homes and 83 ha of employment land by 2026 with potential for a further 4,050 homes and 17 ha employment land. In addition, further development is proposed within the existing urban area.<sup id="cite_ref-centralbedfordshire.gov.uk_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-centralbedfordshire.gov.uk-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within the Framework Plan, the Houghton Regis Development Consortium are planning for 5,150 homes, employment, retail, infrastructure, community, facilities and leisure on cultivated farmland north of Tithe Farm estate and to the east of Parkside estate.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bidwell_West_Consortium_Group_(HRN2)"><span id="Bidwell_West_Consortium_Group_.28HRN2.29"></span>Bidwell West Consortium Group (HRN2)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Bidwell West Consortium Group (HRN2)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This plan includes an urban extension of Houghton Regis, situated north of Houghton Regis Chalk Quarry, west of Bedford Road, east of the A5, and south of the A5-M1 link road. It will provide up to 1850 new homes, a primary school, employment land and a local centre.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In mid-2018 ECL Civil Engineering<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was contracted by Bidwell Land Ownership Group, a consortium of local landowners, to deliver the strategic Infrastructure and section 278 works necessary to develop the 166-hectare (410-acre) site which will eventually accommodate nearly 2000 new homes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg/220px-Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg/330px-Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg/440px-Houghton_Regis_Town_Council_Offices.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4080" data-file-height="2295" /></a><figcaption>Town Council Offices, Peel Street</figcaption></figure> <p>There are two tiers of local government covering Houghton Regis, at parish (town) and unitary authority level: Houghton Regis Town Council and <a href="/wiki/Central_Bedfordshire_Council" title="Central Bedfordshire Council">Central Bedfordshire Council</a>. The town council has its headquarters at the Council Offices on Peel Street.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freedom_of_the_Town">Freedom of the Town</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Freedom of the Town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following people and military units have received the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City" title="Freedom of the City">Freedom of the Town</a> of Houghton Regis.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid 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2010-2011: 23 November 2017</li> <li>Beryl Morton, Houghton Regis <a href="/wiki/Horticulture" title="Horticulture">Horticulturist</a>: 13 October 2018</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabez_Inwards" title="Jabez Inwards">Jabez Inwards</a> (1817-1880), popular Victorian <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement" title="Temperance movement">temperance</a> lecturer and <a href="/wiki/Phrenologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Phrenologist">phrenologist</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regis_(Place)" class="mw-redirect" title="Regis (Place)">Regis (Place)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_place_names_with_royal_patronage_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom">List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Houghton_Regis&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Girls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denbigh_High_School,_Luton" title="Denbigh High School, Luton">Denbigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icknield_High_School" title="Icknield High School">Icknield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lea_Manor_High_School" title="Lea Manor High School">Lea Manor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lealands_High_School" title="Lealands High School">Lealands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putteridge_High_School" title="Putteridge High School">Putteridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_School,_Luton" title="Queen Elizabeth School, Luton">Queen Elizabeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabia_School" title="Rabia School">Rabia School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stockwood_Park_Academy" title="Stockwood Park Academy">Stockwood Park Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stopsley_High_School" title="Stopsley High School">Stopsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodlands_Secondary_School,_Luton" title="Woodlands Secondary School, Luton">Woodlands</a></li></ul> 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