Reference
PSD
Title
Dunstable Petty Sessional Division
Admin/biog history
The Dunstable Division was set up in 1865 as Dunstable Borough Petty Sessions (a proposal for a Dunstable Division having been rejected in 1863) dealing solely with cases arising from within the town itself. Dunstable continued as a Borough sessions until 1949 when it lost its borough status and became an ordinary Petty Sessional Division of the county. On the abolition of the Woburn Division in 1953 certain parishes were transferred to Dunstable Division. At this point the parishes included in the division were Chalgrave; Dunstable; Houghton Regis; Studham; Tilsworth; Totternhoe; Whipsnade.
Level of description
sub-fonds