Whipsnade
Sign in to saveWhipsnade is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, about south-south-west of Dunstable on the top of the Dunstable Downs, which drop away steeply to the south of the village.
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Place details
- Locality
- Whipsnade
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 279
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Whipsnade
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.static_image_name
- St.Mary Magdelen, Whipsnade - geograph.org.uk - 222462.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St Mary Magdelene, Whipsnade (August 2006)
- UK place.population
- 455
- UK place.population_ref
- (parish)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL010179
- UK place.post_town
- DUNSTABLE
- UK place.postcode_area
- LU
- UK place.postcode_district
- LU6
- UK place.dial_code
- 01582
- UK place.constituency_westminster
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Central Bedfordshire
- Population
- +420
- Image
- St.Mary Magdelen, Whipsnade - geograph.org.uk - 222462.jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
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Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, about south-south-west of Dunstable on the top of the Dunstable Downs, which drop away steeply to the south of the village.
==Etymology== Whipsnade is a compound of the Anglo-Saxon personal name, Wibba, with the word "snæd", an area of woodland. Therefore, the name means "Wibba's wood". A variation may be seen as "Wystnade" in a legal record of 1460, where named people in Dunstable were accused of trespassing.