Dunstable
[key], town, Central Bedfordshire, SE England. Located at the meeting
point of the ancient Icknield Street
and Watling Street,
Dunstable is a developing residential and industrial district, with printing
and cement plants and extensive automobile works. There are interesting
traces of Stone and Bronze Age civilizations, including the Maiden Bower and
Five Knolls earthworks; one of the Knolls, excavated in 1926, contained
remains and ornaments of a woman of c.2000 b.c. The Priory Church
includes part of an Augustinian priory founded with the town in 1131.
Whipsnade Zoo is nearby. Dunstable has a College of Further Education.
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