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This history of Milton Keynes details its development from the earliest human settlements, through the plans for a 'new city' for 250,000 people in northern Southeast England, its subsequent urban design and development, to the present day. Milton Keynes, founded in 1967, is the largest settlement and only city in Buckinghamshire.
Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre at Bradwell Abbey holds an extensive archive about the planning and development of Milton Keynes and has an associated research library. [145] The centre also offers an education programme (with a focus on urban geography and local history) to schools, universities and professionals.
The City of Milton Keynes is a borough with city status, in Buckinghamshire, England. [3] It is the northernmost district of the South East England Region . The borough abuts Bedfordshire , Northamptonshire and the remainder of Buckinghamshire.
Holy Trinity Church, Little Woolstone . Great Woolstone and Little Woolstone are two historic villages in modern Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire that are now called jointly Woolstone or The Woolstones and form the heart of a new district of that name, [1] [2] in the Campbell Park civil parish.
It covers the history of the Milton Keynes area, including northern Buckinghamshire and southern Northamptonshire, from the year 1800 onwards. It includes the Stacey Hill Collection of rural life, consisting of agricultural, domestic, industrial, and social objects connected to the area before the 1967 foundation of Milton Keynes.
Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, [2] [3] Buckinghamshire, England, in the south-west of the city, split between the civil parishes of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford and West Bletchley, which In 2011 had a combined population of 37,114.
Middleton is an area of Milton Keynes, a city in Buckinghamshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Milton Keynes. [a] Its historic centre is Milton Keynes Village, the village that in 1967 gave its name to the city of which it is now a small part. [2]
Loughton / ˈ l aʊ t ən / is an ancient village and modern district. The village spreads between Watling Street and the modern A5 road.It is just to the west of Central Milton Keynes, with pedestrian access over the A5 to Milton Keynes Central railway station.