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Bletchley (including Fenny Stratford and Water Eaton) |
 | | Bletchley, which includes the hamlet of Water Eaton and until 1881-91 also included part of the market town of Fenny Stratford, is a large and low-lying parish, watered on the east by the River Ousel and the Grand Junction Canal, which run almost parallel through Fenny Stratford and Water Eaton. |
 | | The other manor (West Bletchley) was purchased of Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, by Catherine, Duchess Dowager of Buckingham, whose son, the second duke, having sold it to Dr. Willis, all the manors became again united. |
 | | William Cole, the Cambridge antiquary, was rector of Bletchley from 1753 to 1767: the rectory is in the patronage of John Willis esq. |
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