West Bletchley is a civil parish in the borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, covering the western part of Bletchley, including Far Bletchley. It has a population of 20,994 according to the 2001 census. The eastern part of Bletchley is part of the Bletchley and Fenny Stratford parish. In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the smallest unit of local government. ... The Borough of Milton Keynes is a borough in England. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... Bletchley is the name of more than one place. ... Bletchley and Fenny Stratford is a civil parish with a town council, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. ...
Bletchley Park lies at the centre of the important Oxford-Cambridge Arc and is located next to Milton Keynes.
As a consequence of these achievements Bletchley Park is attributed with simultaneously shortening the War and heralding the dawn of the age of the computer.
Bletchley Park Trust was formed in February 1992 with the aim of preserving the site and bringing Bletchley Parks wartime exploits to the attention of a wider audience.
Bletchley, which includes the hamlet of Water Eaton and until 1881-91 also included part of the market town of Fenny Stratford, is a large and low-lying parish, watered on the east by the River Ousel and the Grand Junction Canal, which run almost parallel through Fenny Stratford and Water Eaton.
The other manor (WestBletchley) was purchased of Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, by Catherine, Duchess Dowager of Buckingham, whose son, the second duke, having sold it to Dr. Willis, all the manors became again united.
William Cole, the Cambridge antiquary, was rector of Bletchley from 1753 to 1767: the rectory is in the patronage of John Willis esq.
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