* The earliest recorded miracle play is performed in Dunstable, England.

Dunstable ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler.

Dunstable is bordered by Pepperell to the west, Groton to the south, Tyngsborough to the east, and Nashua and Hollis, New Hampshire, to the north.

This is also the site for the annual auto show in Dunstable.

* The Dunstable Evangelical Congregational Church ( DECC ) is located at 518 Main Street, adjacent to the Town Commons and directly across from Town Hall.

Because it is the only church in town, it is often called simply " the Dunstable Church ".

* The Dunstable Free Library is located at 588 Main Street.

Tyngsborough is bordered by the towns of Dunstable, Groton, Westford, Chelmsford, and Dracut, by the city of Lowell, and by the New Hampshire communities of Hudson, Pelham, and Nashua.

Additionally, Tyngsborough is home to Greater Lowell Technical High School, a public vocational school which serves the towns of Tyngsborough, Dracut, and Dunstable as well as the city of Lowell.

Fifth Business is narrated by Dunstable ( later Dunstan ) Ramsay, a male schoolteacher who grows up in Deptford, a fictional town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.

The other marriage is that of the outspoken heiress, Martha Dunstable, to Doctor Thorne, the eponymous hero of the preceding novel in the series.

The Icknield Way is depicted by a straight line from Salisbury to Bury St Edmunds which intersects the other three roads near Dunstable.

To the east of Ivinghoe Beacon is Dunstable Downs, a steep section of the Chiltern scarp.

The spelling " Dunstaple " is preferred by Margaret Bent, since it occurs in more than twice as many musical attributions as that of " Dunstable ".

First the Dunstable Branch of the Great Northern Railway passed through the Batford area with a station later named Harpenden East railway station ( this line is now closed and forms a cycle track ).

Leighton Buzzard is expanding eastwards: 2500-4500 homes including 35 % affordable housing are planned for east Leighton Buzzard for the Luton / Dunstable / Houghton Regis growth area and 900 homes including 35 % affordable housing are being considered west of Linslade.

1. The story of Dunstan ( then called Dunstable ) Ramsay ’ s life begins in 1908 when Ramsay is 10 years old.

One night the townspeople paint their faces black and riot outside of the Dempster home, and Dunstable is disgusted that Amasa does not go out to face them.

Dunstable resumes his visits with Mary and Paul by sneaking in through her window while Amasa is out.

Over the next year Dunstable is ostracized at school but finds comfort and company in books.

In the autumn of 1914 war breaks out across the world, but Dunstable is more concerned with his older brother Willie ’ s illness.

Dunstable has to stay at his brother ’ s side while the rest of the town is at the Fall Fair, and during this sitting Willie dies.

Today, Dunstable, in the face of urban sprawl, has held onto a largely rural character.

* Dunstan ( Dunstable ) Ramsay — The main focus and narrator of the novel, which takes the form of a letter to the headmaster of Colborne College, from which Ramsay has recently retired.

The Icknield Way Trail, a horse rider and off-road cycle route, has been established following a similar route to the Icknield Way Path which passes over the Dunstable Downs.

It has been home to Luton Town Football Club since 1905, when financial complications forced the club to leave its previous location at Dunstable Road.

As of August 2011 the station merged with Heart Dunstable and Heart Bedford to become Heart Four Counties and now has its studios from Central Milton Keynes.

He works for Dunstable helping to compile the Dunstable family history, but is poorly treated by the Duke, who suspects him of going on " toots ", and hits him in the face with a well-thrown egg when he hears him singing on the lawn outside his rooms, and also has him help steal Emsworth's prize pig Empress of Blandings, a task which sorely tries Baxter's nerve ; he is later slipped a Mickey Finn by Uncle Fred.

* Bernard O ' Mahoney, who since the 1990s has made his name as an author of true crime books, lived in Wilkes Road, Codsall, for some 20 years after moving from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, as a child in the 1960s.

The area under the tower has made into the Chapel of the Holy Rood and contains a reredos, an altar and a credence table which were adapted in 1978 from a rood screen of 1890 by Bodley which was taken from Dunstable Priory.

A large-scale housebuilding programme has been proposed by the government for the environs of Luton, Dunstable and Milton Keynes, and proposals to build a 20, 000 seater football stadium was withdrawn in 2007.

He has managed Dunstable Town, Bedford Town, Maidstone United, Southend United, Barnet, Birmingham City and, most recently, Peterborough United.

The lion can be seen from the B489 ( Aylesbury to Dunstable road ).

Fine Norman and Early English work is seen at Dunstable and Elstow, and the later style is illustrated by the large cruciform churches at Leighton Buzzard and at Felmersham on the Ouse above Bedford.

Dunstable panics but does not go for the doctor ; instead, he brings Mary Dempster to the scene and she prays by Willie ’ s bed and restores him to life.

" Reminiscent of the possibility of seeing the Celestial City from Mount Clear, on a clear day one can see London's buildings from Dunstable Downs near Whipsnade Zoo ;

Eleanor's coffin was guarded by Canons in the Dunstable Priory whilst local people mourned at the crossroads, the location where the original cross was then constructed.

The Kinross family picnic scene, set during the Battle of Britain in 1940, was filmed on location on the Dunstable Downs in Bedfordshire.

Dunstable was named after its sister town Dunstable, England.

Dunstable was first settled in 1656 and was officially incorporated in 1673.

Tyngsborough was settled in 1661, as part of the massive Dunstable Township.

The town of Dunstable, incorporated in 1673, was named after the hometown of pioneer Edward Tyng.

* From its charter in 1746 until about 1763, Hollis was engaged in a running border dispute with Dunstable ( now Nashua, New Hampshire ) over a small settlement at " One Pine Hill ", near Flint Pond.

Pelham was split from Old Dunstable in 1741, when the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was settled.

In 1861, now called the Hertford, Luton & Dunstable, it was absorbed by the GNR.

Catesby's party, ignorant of what was happening in London, paused at Dunstable when his horse lost a shoe.

Straw was also imported from Italy to produce the superior ' Tuscan plait ' traded at a Saturday market for the Luton and Dunstable hat trade and remained the major cottage industry until around 1860, providing employment for women and girls some of whom attended a ' plait-school ' in Waterside.

Arthur George Rixson Mooring was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire on 23 November 1908, the son of the editor of the Bedford Gazette.

He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree.

John Dunstaple ( or Dunstable ) ( c. 1390 – 24 December 1453 ) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late medieval era and early Renaissance.

Dunstaple was probably born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

Among his last projects was the building that housed Mid Bedfordshire District Council ( formerly the Ampthill Rural District Council offices ) until August 2006, at 12 Dunstable Street ( 1963 – 1965 ).

He was born on 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

In the last true tournament held in England in 1342 at Dunstable, the mêlée was postponed so long by jousting that the sun was sinking by the time the lines charged.

South Bedfordshire was formed by the amalgamation of three districts: the municipal borough of Dunstable, Leighton-Linslade urban district and Luton Rural District.