Description
Dunston, a hamlet and a township in Embleton parish, Northumberland. The hamlet is situated. 2 miles SE of Embleton, 6^ NE of Ainwick, and 2 from Little Mill station on the N.E.E. Post town, Lesbury; money order office, Craster; telegraph office, Ainwick. Acreage of township, 1731; population, 244. Duns Scotus was born in this village about the year 1265.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
