Dunstable

History

One produced there at the 19th century of the straw hats. There are ruins of a priory founded by Henri I {{er}} of England. It is in Dunstable that the first plays in England were played.

Dunstable is on the crossroads of the Roman road of Watling Street (today the trunk road A5 which goes from Edgware Road in the center of London until Hollyhead to the Wales.

At the time Dunstable Roman was called Durocobrivis . There exist two theories on the origin of the modern name: either a famous gangster, Dunn, would have given his name to the city Dunn' S stable (the stable of Dunn), or the name Dunstable comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Dunstaple which wants to say “gone on the hillock”.

Dunstable counts a score of pub S old. Because it took one day to arrive there from London, one thus liked to spend the night there.

There are two very old pubs which always have gates on the side where passed formerly from the Carrosse S. Sugar Loaf which are in the street High Street North to 150 m of the crossroads and Saracens Head which is to 100 m of the crossroads in the street High Street South.

The ground of Saracens Head, whose name was often given to the pubs attended by the knights of the Croisade S, is located at a level of approximately 50 cm lower than the road A5 (High Street South), consequence of the number of times that the road was refitted since its construction.

It is said that there is a whole series of tunnels which goes from the basement of Saracens Head to the crypt of the Priory church to 150 m behind.

The Priory church was founded in 1132 by Henri 1 {{er}}. Almost 400 years later it is where Henri VIII and Catherine d' Aragon divorced what brought to the separation of the Église of England of Rome.

The first battles of the English civil war took place with Dunstable. It is also said that Henri VIII survived it an attack which one always sees traces on the walls of the Priory church.

The railroad London and North Western Railway arrives at Dunstable in 1848, it connected it to the West Coast Main Line with Leighton Buzzard (5 km in the west).

Ten years later, a second railroad made the connection between Dunstable and Luton (11 km in the east). Dunstable does not have any more a station since 1965. The rails between Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard were removed. Those which go towards Luton are always in place and until were recently used for freight.

A project of bus-guide, Translink, would use possibly the way to join Luton.

Twinning

since 2005.

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