{"id":142,"date":"2009-08-26T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:23:42","slug":"the-story-of-luton-bedfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/the-story-of-luton-bedfordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Luton Bedfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large town located in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/luton-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Luton<\/a> dates from a Saxon settlement established on the River Lea during the 6<sup>th<\/sup> century. Listed as <em>Loitone<\/em> in the Domesday Book, Luton developed as a mostly agricultural town. In 1240 the town was called <em>Leueton<\/em>, though most of the town was later destroyed by a great fire (1336). The arrival of a brick-making industry in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century, led to most of its houses being rebuilt in brick rather than the traditional wood. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/luton-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">Luton<\/a> has for a long time been associated with hat-making and this industry in fact started during the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century, but had declined by the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, being largely replaced by an emerging car manufacturing industry, as Vauxhall Motors opened a new plant in 1905, at the time the largest car manufacturing factory in the UK.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/bedfordshire-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bedfordshire Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large town located in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Luton dates from a Saxon settlement established on the River Lea during the 6th century. Listed as Loitone in the Domesday Book, Luton developed as a mostly agricultural town. In 1240 the town was called Leueton, though most of the town was later destroyed by a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[173,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}