New Bradwell is (mainly) a Victorian new town that is now part of Milton Keynes new city, on its northern edge. Together with Wolverton (on the other side of what is now the West Coast Main Line), it was built primarily to house the workers on the Wolverton railway works. Victorian can refer to: people from or attributes of places called Victoria (disambiguation page), including Victoria, Australia, people who lived during the British Victorian era of the 19th century, and aspects of the Victorian era, for example: Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian morality Victorian literature This is a disambiguation page... A New town or planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ... Milton Keynes (pronounced ) is a purpose-built, high technology city in the south east of England approximately 50 miles (80km) north of London and mid-way between Oxford and Cambridge. ... Wolverton is an area of Milton Keynes, England. ... The WCML running alogside the M1 motorway in Northamptonshire The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important intercity railway lines in the United Kingdom, part of the British railway system. ... Wolverton railway works was set up in the 1830s by the London and Birmingham Railway at the midpoint of their 112 mile-long line. ...

During the Second World War, the "Bradwell Blitz" consisted of one bomb on one night, but was the most dramatic event in this part of North Buckinghamshire. (The activities at Bletchley Park a few miles south were top secret.) Whilst it may have been aimed at the Works, it seems more likely that the bomb was merely jettisoned by the Luftwaffe on return from Birmingham or Coventry, completely unaware of what lay below. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest and most expensive war in history, estimated... During World War II, British and American cryptographers at Bletchley Park broke a large number of Axis codes and ciphers, including the German Enigma machine. ... The   Luftwaffe? (German: air force, IPA: [luftvafÉ™]) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ...

The town is on the Great Ouse, the Grand Union Canal and the Sustrans cycle-way. The Great Ouse at St Neots The River Great Ouse is a river in the east of England. ... The canal at Braunston The Grand Union Canal is a canal in England and part of the British canal system. ... Sustrans is a British charity which promotes sustainable transport. ...

The original Bradwell was a Benedictine Priory that, before the dissolution of the monasteries, had control over all the land hereabouts. Bradwell is a village in the county of Milton Keynes. ... A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of Saint Benedict, whether belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, or to one of the Anglican or Protestant churches. ... The Dissolution of the Monasteries (referred to by Roman Catholic writers as the Suppression of the Monasteries) was the formal process, taking place between 1536 and 1540, by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the Roman Catholic monastic institutions in England and took them to himself, as the...