Fenny Stratford is one of the towns which make up the "new town" of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
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| Grand Union Canal in Fenny Stratford |
| Information |
| County: |
Buckinghamshire |
| Unitary authority: |
Milton Keynes |
| Population: |
21,471 (Parish) |
Fenny Stratford was recorded in manorial rolls as early as 1252 as Fenni Stratford, the name is Old English for marsh ford on a Roman road, the Roman settlement of Magiovintum was nearby. Watling Street runs through the town. Fenny Stratford was awarded a market charter by King James I in 1608. The town had a successful market until the plague hit the town badly in 1665, the market never recovered and Fenny Stratford went into a severe decline.
The town's recovery was helped by new transport links including the canal (nowadays part of the Grand Union Canal) and the railways, Fenny Stratford railway station is now a stop on the Marston Vale Line. The diesel engine can be said to have had it's origin in Fenny Stratford. Henry Akroyd Stuart built the first successful heavy oil engines in 1890, two years later Rudolph Diesel based his designs on Akroyd Stuart's and the rest is history.
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| St Martin's church |
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| Properties in Fenny Stratford |
