I think you are stretching the facts by claiming that Milton Keynes “was at the epicentre of Britain’s intelligence community” (Five reasons to love Milton Keynes, G2, 24 January). Milton Keynes was not even being planned at the time Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park were working on cracking the Enigma code. As an enduring legacy I would suggest The Point, the UK’s first ever multiplex cinema, sadly now due to be demolished for redevelopment.
Geoff Bunce
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
• Your advert (24 January) for the May masterclass on “How to solve the Guardian cryptic crossword” carries the image of an unmistakably American non-cryptic crossword, probably from the New York Times – a very different form of challenge, but often an equally testing and satisfying one. If the day in May covers the NYT’s format as well as the Guardian’s, exploring the distinctions and the cultural reasons for them, it really will be worth the money.
Charles Barr
Norwich
• When moving to the parish of St Anne’s, Leicester, the director of music told me that the first line of the hymn Jerusalem (Letters, 24 January) provides evidence that St Anne is the patron saint of chiropodists.
Canon Chris Oxley
Swinford, Leicestershire
• Professor Michael Walling (Letters, 23 January) says there are strictly only two countries with the definite article in their names: the Gambia and the Bahamas. What about the Netherlands?
Werner de Bock
Barnwell, Northamptonshire
• I have always referred to “the Kings Road” in London. My son, who lives in Sloane Square, says it is simply “Kings Road” now. So when did this change?
Shirley Betteridge
Southampton
• My husband reminds me that only his team has the appellation “The Arsenal”.
Ann Mabbott (Hull City fan)
Prescot, Merseyside
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