West Bletchley is a district and civil parish^[1] in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England in the borough of Milton Keynes. The parish covers that part of Bletchley that is south of Standing Way (A421), west of the West Coast Main Line and north of Water Eaton Brook.

[edit] Population and geography

The parish has a population of 20,994 according to the 2001 census. The districts and neighbourhoods in the parish are:

• Old Bletchley
• Far Bletchley
• West Bletchley (district)

The parish also has 10 wards within these areas, they are:

• Church Green (including Bletchley Park)
• Poets
• Saints
• Castles
• Racecourses
• Fairways
• Rivers
• Denbigh West
• Denbigh North West
• Denbigh North East

Most districts of West Bletchley Parish are residential, but the district of Bletchley Park is important enough to be summarised here.

[edit] Bletchley Park

The main house at Bletchley Park

Within the West Bletchley parish, in the Church Green district, is Bletchley Park, which, during the Second World War, was home to the Government Code and Cypher School. The German Enigma code was cracked here by, amongst others, Alan Turing. Another cipher machine was solved with the aid of early computing devices, known as Colossus. The park is now a museum, although many areas of the park grounds have been sold off for housing development.

[edit] See also

• Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, the other civil parish for 'greater Bletchley'.

[edit] References

1. ^ Parishes in Milton Keynes - Milton Keynes Council.

[edit] Further reading

• Edward Legg, Early History of Bletchley Park 1235– 1937, Bletchley Park Trust Historic Guides series, No. 1, 1999

Coordinates: 51°59′31″N 0°44′02″W / 51.992°N 0.734°W / 51.992; -0.734