Dunton, Bedfordshire

Description
Dunton, a village and a parish in Beds, adjacent to the boundary of Herts and Cambridge, 3 miles ESE from Biggleswade town and railway station. The parish contains the hamlets of Millo and Newtown, and its post town, money order and telegraph office is Biggleswade. Acreage, 2650; population, 434. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £235. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church, a building of stone in which Gothic Perpendicular and Decorated styles of architecture occur, has been very handsomely restored with oak fittings throughout. The spacious chancel, with elaborately carved oak ceiling, was restored by the late Lord Brownlow, the tiles throughout the church being designed by the Bishop of Ely. There is a Baptist chapel.