Talk:Woburn, Bedfordshire

Misc
In wartime there was some secret work done in Woburn, possibly connected with Bletchley Park.

I'm not sure if this is encyclopedic material, but the shops and restaurants cater more effectively for tourists than for residents. There is only one general store which sells a restricted range of goods. Many residents shop at supermarkets out of the town.

The village is served a few times a day by the number 49 bus whose termini are Woburn Sands and Leighton Buzzard. It does not run on Sundays or public holidays.

There is a school (presumably primary) and a swimming-pool. The general store is also a post-office.


 * As someone who used to live in the area, I just crashed in expecting to find references to the wartime work and was surprised by the omission. istr it was radio propaganda and that Glenn Miller was involved. There will probably be loads of references online. -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 15:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

local art gallery
This needs identification and citation.

cooked stream
This could be a typo for crooked stream.

Legends of mad men and Hillbillies
I've just removed the following text, please accept my apologies if this is actually true and you are mortally offended :) but it's unreferenced. I put it here (rather than simply deleting) because it is vaguely funny. Chris Bradshaw 14:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Woburn has many legends about it and its infamous bench from innocent travellers. Many of these travellers are said to have never escaped the wrath of ‘W’ also known as Woburn. The village store that it has, which owned by one man, who is nearly the entire population of  ‘W’, is said to only sell few food products, only enough for people to live off, only to  peril due to the wrath of the bench. Legend says that even to this day, they are skeletons in the phone boxes, of those who spent their last breath, in an attempt to get help, though none would ever come. In this small village, are some houses, at first these are very attractive, little cottages. But from closer inspection, they have no doors, and in them, live mad-men, who will come at innocent travellers with pitchforks and torches. Legend has it, that the only people, who have ever left ‘W’ alive, went there in search of food, after travelling the country. Not only here did they not find food, but barely escaped with their lives. After numerous attempts to call for help, eventually a swat truck came. Just in time, the group of innocent travellers managed to get in, whilst the hillbillies chased after them, pitch forks in hand.

Pronunciation
As someone familiar with the Woburn that's found in Massachusetts, I'd be interested in seeing the proper pronunciation of Woburn (Bedfordshire) mentioned in the article. Woburn, Massachusetts is pronounced WOO-BURN, not WOE-BURN or WAW-BURN, at least by the locals. What's the Bedfordshire version sound like? Snezzy (talk) 19:11, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Snezzy, it's pronounced WOE-BURN -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 15:17, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


 * To Snezzy and Daytona2....when I lived in the UK (1950s, 60s and early 70s), Woburn was indeed pronounced Wooburn in both the village and the Abbey. Thus, when I visited MA in 80s, the local pronunciation was no surprise to me. However, on visits to England in the 90s and 00s, I found that the normal pronunciation now seemed to be Woeburn. The change was fairly rapid....I have no idea what caused it. 122.107.80.75 (talk) 00:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * What's needed some international phonetic alphabet. My theory is that pronunciation is class-marked.

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Town or village?
In both the lead and throughout this article, Woburn is referred to as a town, despite their being no reliable sources stating that it had a town charter, nor does the civil parish have a town council. Are there any Woburn experts who know which one it is? Anonymous MK2006 (talk) 12:01, 9 April 2023 (UTC)