Bletchley: Codebreakers, the Railway Junction, and Milton Keynes' Southern Anchor
Bletchley is known worldwide for Bletchley Park, where the Government Code and Cypher School broke Enigma and other Axis codes during the Second World War. Alan Turing worked here. The site is now a museum. Before the war, Bletchley was a railway junction town where the main line to the north crossed the Oxford to Cambridge route (the Varsity Line, now being partially reinstated as East West Rail). The population of the Bletchley area is around 50,000. The town was absorbed into the new city of Milton Keynes in 1967 but retains a distinct identity from the grid-road new town to the north.
Bletchley station provides West Midlands Railway and Southern services. The A5 (Watling Street) runs nearby. Central Milton Keynes is four miles north. For adult companionship, Bletchley is covered by Thames Valley Police and governed by England and Wales criminal law.
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Bletchley is known worldwide for Bletchley Park, where the Government Code and Cypher School broke Enigma and other Axis codes during the Second World War. Alan Turing worked here. The site is now a museum. Before the war, Bletchley was a railway junction town where the main line to the north crossed the Oxford to Cambridge route (the Varsity Line, now being partially reinstated as East West Rail). The population of the Bletchley area is around 50,000. The town was absorbed into the new city of Milton Keynes in 1967 but retains a distinct identity from the grid-road new town to the north.
Bletchley station provides West Midlands Railway and Southern services. The A5 (Watling Street) runs nearby. Central Milton Keynes is four miles north. For adult companionship, Bletchley is covered by Thames Valley Police and governed by England and Wales criminal law.
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