Secrets of Bletchley Park

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Introduction

A walk around Bletchley, with Bletchley Park as the focus. The name may sound ordinary enough but what took place here during the dark days of the Second World War is quite remarkable. This was the home of Station X - where more than 10,000 people worked in total secrecy in a small, nondescript town at the heart of the English shires.

Start/Finish Point

Bletchley station.

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Access and General Information

Length: 5 miles

Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Directions

1 From the station car park cross the road and take the path to Bletchley Park. On leaving the former Station X walk along Wilton Avenue and left into Church Green Road. Bear left at the junction with Buckingham Road and make your way towards Central Bletchley. Turn right into Water Eaton Road, pass beneath the Bletchley-to-Oxford railway line, and bear right at the footpath sign, just before the next railway bridge.

2 Pass a pond, Pulmans Swannery, on the right and follow the fenced path to a stile. Continue to a fork, keep right and follow a track in an anti-clockwise direction round the edge of the lake. Avoid a ford and a footbridge and continue on the lakeside path. At the south west corner of the lake, look for some steps and a footbridge on the right. Turn left immediately beyond them and follow a path parallel to power lines. Bear left at a grassy track and follow it towards the railway line. Turn right immediately before a stile and keep to the right of a house. Swing left at a fence to reach a stile, and then walk ahead with the railway line on your left.

3 Pass through a tunnel of trees and alongside farmland and, when you reach the drive to Slad Farm, exit to the road. Bear left, cross the railway bridge and turn immediately right at a gate. Follow the path for a short distance to a field corner and swing left to join a bridleway. Keep the houses of Bletchley on your left, beyond the trees and hedgerow. On reaching the road, between two roundabouts, cross over to the canal bridge and swing left to follow the Broad Walk. At a sign for the Riverside Walk, turn right and then swing left after about 75yds (69m).

4 Keep the river a short distance away to the right. Draw level with a farm over to the right, cross a footbridge over a pond and turn left. Head for The Watermill and Mill Farm, avoiding the car park for Waterhall Park. Cross the bridge over the Grand Union Canal and keep right. Ahead now are several thatched and timber-framed cottages. Turn left in front of them and keep right at the main road junction, heading towards the Plough inn. Cross the road at the roundabout, following the sign for the station. Continue ahead through a residential area, pass beneath the two railway bridges seen near the start of the walk, go straight over at the junction and back to the station car park.

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