Local churches in and around Bletchley

Bletchley is an ancient village - the parish church of St Mary's dates from the 1190's, and the adjoining hamlet of Fenny Stratford may be much older - sitting as it does astride the Roman road - Watling Street.

At the 1801 census the population was a little over 800. The coming of first the Grand Union canal and then the London to Birmingham railway, later bisected by the Oxford to Cambridge railway, caused the village to grow to over 4000 by 1901. More information can be found at this genealogy site which also records that the number of churches had grown from the single parish church to 3 Anglican, 4 Methodist and a Baptist church.

Bletchley Park is famous as the site of the World War II code breaking operation and where the first stored-program computer was used to break the codes. It is also now the site of the National Museum of Computing. However the fields that Alan Turing cycled through on his way to work are now covered with houses as Bletchley grew quickly in the 1960's and then became part of of Milton Keynes, the fastest growing, wealthiest and best designed new town in England.

Whaddon Way was part of this growth and there are now churches meeting in schools, local meeting places, and and also in purpose build ecumenical buildings where several denominations worship together. Those local to Whaddon Way can be found below. For others in Milton Keynes see the MKWeb religion site.