Bletchley, a township and a parish in Bucks. The township lies adjacent to Watling Street, and on the L. & N.W.R., at the junction of the branches to Bedford, Oxford, and Banbury, 14 miles by railway E of Buckingham, and it has a station on the railway, and a head post, money order, and telegraph office of the name of Bletchley Station. The parish includes also the hamlet of Water-Eaton. Acreage, 1308; population of the civil parish, 456; of the ecclesiastical, including Water-Eaton, 697. The original head-manor was Water-Eaton, and was given by William the Conqueror to Geoffry, Bishop of Constance, in Normandy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £630 with residence. The church is a handsome Gothic structure, with a tower, and was restored in 1867-68. It contains the tomb of Lord Grey de Wilton, who died in 1442, and a curious tablet to Dr Sparke, who was rector in 1616. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Water-Eaton.
