Dunstable Downs is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire (as Blow's Downs). Dunstable Downs Dunstable Downs are part of the Chiltern Hills, in southern Bedfordshire in England. They are a chalk escarpment forming the north-eastern reaches of the Chilterns. At 797 ft (243 m), Dunstable Downs are the highest point of the county of Bedfordshire. Because of its elevation, Dunstable Downs hosted a station in the shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in London to its naval ships in the port of Great Yarmouth during the years 1808 to 1814. Whipsnade Zoo has cut an enormous lion
World War Zoo gardens set up Pig Clubs, feeding and fattening livestock on food scraps including the London police pig club, run in the empty cages of ZSL Regent's Park London Zoo, the usual occupants having been evacuated to Whipsnade. Zoo staff at London Zoo planted a 10 pole plot allotment with tomato seeds sent from America and also hosted a National Wartime Utility farm and garden exhibition was set up at ZSL London Zoo, entitled the "Off The Ration" Exhibition to encourage visitors to grow their own crops and livestock. The Imperial War Museum exhibition in London in 2010 called Ministry of Food