It is one of the places in the county of Buckinghamshire that went into the development of the modern town of Milton Keynes in the 1960s.
The town name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Wulfhere's estate'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wluerintone.
Wolverton is also intersected by the Grand Union Canal and in the Nineteenth century became a tow of some importance for the national rail network as carriages and engines for trains were constructed here. The station in Wolverton was opened in 1845 by Queen Victoria.