Talk:Bletchley

I've made a few changes to the grammar, and removed words such as "beautiful" which is not a neutral POV, but I think this needs more work.

Population of Bletchley
I'm afraid I have problems with the population claim for Bletchley (though applaud giving the basis for it). I don't see how it is possible to distinguish between Bletchley, Fenny Stratford and Water Eaton short of knocking on doors to ask people which one they believe they live in. (And even then many of them would probably be wrong - I'm sure that most people on the Lakes would say they live in Bletchley (or maybe MK) but officially its in Water Eaton]. Why are the Denbighs claimed for Bletchley rather than for Fenny which is closer - or even independent?

Likewise the distinction between Bletchley in particular and MK in general is not easy (though easier) - the population of the two parishes has doubled since designation. As with boundaries of the two parishes, I suppose you can arbitrarily decide that the dividing line is along the A421 to the north and the A5 to the east.

I don't have a brilliant alternative, otherwise I'd have changed the article. But we need to find a way to express the fact that it is a rough guide. Or be honest and use the total of the two parishes West Bletchley, Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, and explain that it is a composite figure just to give an indicatation.

Whatever is decided for Bletchley will have to be work for Shenley, Milton Keynes too. --Concrete Cowboy 19:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


 * This is not about the population of Bletchley (i.e. the human geography), but rather the physical geography of the area. If there can be somewhat of a definition of what constitutes Bletchley, then everything else is easy. The difficulty comes in pulling Bletchley, Fenny and Water Eaton apart - an arbitrary and synthetic division. Interestingly, the Thames Valley Police give an approximate population for Bletchley at 56,000 - I wonder what definition they use. Mk3severo 20:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * That's why I believe you have to give the total of the two parishes with a note explaining that it is not possible to separate the subsettlements in any useful way and that this is the population of Bletchley and environs: the combined parishes of West Bletchley and Bletchley and Fenny Stratford.
 * (TVP's figures are for something else. The total pop of the two parishes is less than 35000 at the 2001 census and won't have expanded much if at all.  So I reckon that it is just the southern MK population covered by Bletchley nick, which must be MK1 to MK7 or 8 and a bit of Aylesbury Vale). --Concrete Cowboy 23:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

bricks
this is a notice to myself to add stuff about bricks. Morwen - Talk 17:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * LBC I asume. You'll need to link it with Newton Longville.  Note that the modern district is called "Brickfields" and contains the Blue Lagoon nature reserve - see pic.  --Concrete Cowboy 23:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Clean-up?
Chasnor15 (talk) 07:28, 28 March 2008 (UTC) I cannot see why this article has been classified for cleanup. Chasnor15 (talk) 07:28, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If you look at the article as it was back in August 2006 when the tag was added, it definitely needed cleanup then. It's just that no-one has taken the tag away as they have cleaned it up. -- Roleplayer (talk) 17:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Bletchley Urban District (Council)
If someone has the time and inclination, a section on Bletchley UDC would be good. There is some info at the Vision of Britain site. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:41, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

What should be in this article and what in the CP articles?
I deleted a chunk of material about districts that duplicated similar material in the civil parish articles, per wp:FORK. I wonder, though, whether it would have been better to deleted it from the CP articles and retain it here. Any views? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 21:38, 4 June 2019 (UTC)