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(DUN-stah-ble) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,826 at the 2000 census.
Dunstable was first settled in 1656 and was officially incorporated in 1673. It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler. The original township of Dunstable, granted in 1661, consisted of two hundred square miles, including the towns of Dunstable, Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, Pepperell, Massachusetts,Townsend, Massachusetts,Hudson, New Hampshire,Nashua, New Hampshire, Hollis, New Hampshire, and parts of other towns as well. Increases in population leading to subsections becoming independent towns and the solidification of the Northern boundary of Massachusetts in 1740 shrunk the town down to what remains today.
Today, Dunstable, in the face of urban sprawl, has held onto a largely rural character.