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Bletchley Park Trust
The Mansion
Bletchley Park
Sherwood Drive
Bletchley
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK3 6EB UK
Telephone: 01908 640404
Email: info@bletchleypark.org.uk
Website: Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park was the central site for British codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), it regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The official historian of World War II British Intelligence has written that the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and that without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain.

Buckinghamshire County Museum
Church St.
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 2QP UK
Telephone: 1296 331441
Email: museum@buckscountymuseum.org
Website: Buckinghamshire County Museum

The Buckinghamshire County Museum is a museum in the centre of Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, England. It displays artefacts pertinent to the history of Buckinghamshire including geological displays, costume, agriculture and industry. The museum also features changing art exhibits in the Buckinghamshire Art Gallery.

The museum is housed in three old buildings that have been joined together: a chapel in St Mary's Square, the old Aylesbury Grammar School (before it was moved to its present location) and Ceely House. To the rear of the building, in what used to be Ceely House's coach house, is the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery.

Civil Records Offices

The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.

Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, in Buckinghamshire, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire Civil Records Office
Walton Street Offices
Aylesbury
HP20 1XF UK

Telephone: 01296 383 005
Email: registrars@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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Beaconsfield Old Town Registration Office
29 Windsor End
Beaconsfield
HP9 2JJ UK

Telephone: 01494 475 205
Email: registrars@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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High Wycombe Library Registration Office
5 Eden Place
High Wycombe
HP11 2DH UK

Telephone: 01494 475 200 Email: registrars@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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Milton Keynes Civil Registry Office
1 Saxon Gate East
Central Milton Keynes MK9 3EJ UK

Telephone: 01908 372101
Email: registrars@milton-keynes.gov.uk

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