Still higher stands Stukeley, a very large parish, on the same sort of soil as that in Huntingdonshire. This is the oldest church, and most intire, I ever saw, undoubtedly before the Conquest, in the plain ancient manner, being a parallelogram of four squares: two are allotted to the church; one covered by the steeple, which stands between it and the choir, carried across the church upon two round arches; one square to the choir, which is vaulted over with stone: the windows are small, with semi-circular arches, and few in number: at the west end are three arches, the door in the middlemost: the whole of a very good manner of symmetry. [Illustration: 28·2ᵈ. _Prospect of_ Benavona _July 6ᵗʰ. 1725._ _Stukeley delin._ _Fletcher sculp._] [Sidenote: +Magiovinium.+] Thus far we have gone through Northamptonshire and Bucks: now we enter Bedfordshire, and arrive at _Magiovinium_, or Dunstable. The road hither from Fenny Stretford is deep sand (and comes from _Salinæ_, or _sandy_) till you arrive at the bottom of the chalk-hills, or _chiltern_, which arise very steep on this side, as being north-west, conform to my assumption, p. 4. The town stands upon this chalk; whence its Roman name, importing the white town:[102] it consists of four streets, intersecting at right angles, but oblique to the cardinal points, because such is the direction of the Icening and Watling-street, which here meet. In the centre stood one of those beautiful crosses of queen Eleanor; but fanatic zeal has robbed the town of this ornament. This being a high situation, and no running water near, they are forced to draw up their water, from very deep wells, by machinery of great wheels. Kingsbury, the royal seat over-against the church, is now a farm-house. The church is composed of many parts tacked together, some very old: it was part of the priory: arch-bishop Cranmer was the last prior here. In Dunstable church is this inscription, *Hic iacent Nicholaus Lane quondam presidens frat’nitat’ sci Johannis Baptiste De Dunstable qui obiit ii die mens’ Decembr anno Dm Mᵒ CCCCᵒ lir Et Agnes ur. eiᵒ quorum animabus propicietur Deus amen.* [Sidenote: +Maiden Bower.+ British.] [Sidenote: Tumuli _British_.]