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This trend continued through the 1950s and 1960s, culminating [d] in the GLC-funded Lakes Estate in Water Eaton parish, even as Milton Keynes was being founded. Industrial development kept pace, with former London businesses relocating to new industrial estates in Mount Farm and Denbigh – Marshall Amplification being the most notable.
Milton Keynes (/ k iː n z / ⓘ KEENZ) is a city [c] in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. [b] At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes.
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (designated 23 January 1967) [22] Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (designated 21 July 1967) [23] Northampton, Northamptonshire (designated 14 February 1968) [24] Warrington, Cheshire (designated 26 April 1968), [25] resulting in the Birchwood development; Telford, Shropshire (designated 29 November 1968) [26]
Milton Keynes City Council asks 180 people to relocate from the 1960s-built flats in Bletchley.
Several new towns were created in the years following its passing. Its most immediate use was the designation of Milton Keynes in 1967, which was envisaged to become a "new city" of 250,000 people. [23] The 1965 act replaced the 1946 act and was replaced in turn by the 1981 act.
It is one of the parts of the region that went to make up the new city of Milton Keynes in the 1960s. Shenley is located to the west of the city centre, on the Roman road Watling Street between Stony Stratford and Fenny Stratford. The name Shenley is an Old English language word meaning "bright clearing". [1]
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.
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