New Bradwell
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New Bradwell is (mainly) a Victorian era new village that is now part of Milton Keynes "new city", on its northern edge. Together with Wolverton (on the other side of what is now the West Coast Main Line), it was built primarily to house the workers on the Wolverton railway works.
During the Second World War, the "Bradwell Blitz" consisted of one bomb on one night, but was the most dramatic event in this part of North Buckinghamshire. (The activities at Bletchley Park a few miles south were top secret.) Whilst it may have been aimed at the Works, it seems more likely that the bomb was merely jettisoned by the Luftwaffe on return from Birmingham or Coventry, completely unaware of what lay below.
The village is bordered by the Great Ouse, the Grand Union Canal and the West Coast Main Line and is on the Sustrans cycle-way.
The original Bradwell lies south of New Bradwell.
See also
Bradwell Abbey
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