Its market may be long gone but it hosts various shops, restaurants, pubs, newsagents, and hotels centered mainly around Aylesbury Street.

There are traces of the Romano-British settlement Magiovinium (or Magiovintum) at Dropshot Farm, on the edge of the present day occupation.

[6] As a result, the main London-Chester route that ran through the town on Watling Street was diverted away from it,[6] and the market ceased to exist.

[citation needed] The market was never reinstated: the town was very much in ruins by the early eighteenth century, and had by this time been joined with both Bletchley and Simpson, being commonly considered a hamlet of the former.

[b] On St Martin's Day 1724, the first stone was laid of the new parish church of Fenny Stratford, marking a fresh start in the town's history.

During his lifetime, he also celebrated the occasion with a dinner attended by local clergy and gentry, an event which has continued to the present day.

In 1740, Browne Willis bought a house in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford and the rent from this was used to pay for the sermon and gunpowder.

The world's first successful heavy oil engines were invented and built by Herbert Akroyd Stuart in Fenny Stratford.

(It has been argued that engines of this type might have become known as "Akroyds",[12] had Diesel not been a rather paranoid person not prone to giving other inventors credit.

[13]) The Grand Union Canal runs through the southern outskirts of the town and Fenny Lock is located in Simpson Road area to the east of Watling Street.

Fenny Stratford is bordered by North Street, Bletchley Leisure Centre, Knowles School/Leon Recreational Ground and the Fenny Allotments from the west, the Rail line, Watling street and Denbigh East from the north, Water Eaton Brook by the south and the River Ouzel and Grand Union Canal from the east.