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Lectona

Lectona [AS leac + tun] , (place-name) Leighton: a Leighton Buzzard, Beds; b Leighton Bromswold, Hunts. cf. PN III 129, 245. a Lestone dominicum manerium regis DB I 209rb; 1194 legalium hominum maneriorum de Hocton [Houghton] et Lecton CurR PR 39; Lectona manerium ‥ Lectona Busard in Bedeford scyre Stat. Linc. I 302.  b in Lectone habet Turchillus Danus xv hidas DB I 203vb; c1163 libertatem ‥ ecclesie Lectunie que ad subdecanatum pertinere dinoscitur ‥ concedimus (Cart. episcopi) Stat. Linc. I 310.

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