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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Totternhoe like this:
TOTTERNHOE, a parish, with a village, in Luton district, Beds; 2 miles SW by W of Dunstable r. station. Post town, Dunstable. Acres, 2,394. Real property, £3,418. Pop. in 1851, 753; in 1861, 652. Houses, 144. The property is subdivided. T. Castle is a double-ditched ancient British camp. Straw-plait working is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £180.* Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is later English. There are two Wesleyan chapels.
Totternhoe is now part of CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Totternhoe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Totternhoe, in Central Bedfordshire and Bedfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4511
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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