DUNSTABLE PARISH

Introduction

Dunstable is a market town and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of London. There are several steep chalk escarpments, most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. Dunstable is the fourth largest town in Bedfordshire and along with Houghton Regis forms the westernmost part of the Luton/Dunstable urban area. In Roman times there was a minor settlement called Durocobrivis in the area now occupied by modern-day Dunstable. There was a general assumption that the nominative form of the name had been Durocobrivae, so that is what appears on the map of 1944 illustrated below. But current thinking is that the form Durocobrivis, which occurs in the Antonine Itinerary, is a fossilised locative that was used all the time and Ordnance Survey now uses this form.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	918 hectares
Population	39,600 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	4,315 people/km²
Mean age	39.5
Ward	Dunstable-Manshead
District	Central Bedfordshire
Postcodes	LU5, LU6
ONS ID	E04011941