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Milton Keynes (/ k iː n z / ⓘ KEENZ) is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. 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 ...
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- Bletchley Park
- National Museum of Computing
- Woburn Abbey and Gardens
- Milton Keynes Museum
- Willen Lakeside Park
- Peace Pagoda
- Stony Stratford
- Woburn Safari Park
- Milton Keynes Theatre
- National Radio Centre
It’s impossible to overstate how crucial this 19th-century estate in the south of Milton Keynes turned out to be. Here during Second World War codebreakers like Alan Turing repeatedly cracked secret Axis communications like the Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. In the decades following the war the full extent of their achievement became clear, and it is b...
Opened in 2007 at Bletchley Park, this museum is devoted to acquiring and restoring historic computer systems. The setting is noteworthy for computer heritage, as Block H was the world’s first purpose -built computer, containing six Colossus computers by 1945. These were designed to help with the cryptanalysis of the German Lorenz cipher. There’s a...
In 1547 the Cistercian Woburn Abbey was taken from its monastic order and given to the Dukes of Bedford who have lived here ever since. From the middle of the 18th century the abbey was rebuilt in a Palladian style, employing three of the leading architects of the era, in Henry Flitcroft, Sir William Chambers and Henry Holland. You can tour Woburn ...
In the Parish of Wolverton and Greenleys, Milton Keynes Museum is at a Victorian model farm, a complex created for agricultural research in the industrial age. When this was constructed in the 1800s it was in open countryside, but has since been engulfed by Milton Keynes’ 20th-century sprawl. The museum dips into the history of the town and its cou...
In the eastern part of town is a massive open space formed around a “balancing lake” on the River Ouzel, which was built to capture floodwater to prevent damage downstream. The southern portion of the lake is a recreation area. Wake MK is here, providing lessons in wakeboarding, kitesurfing, kneeboarding and waterskiing. There’s also a “splash ‘n’ ...
Facing the peaceful north lake at Willen is the first Buddhist peace pagoda to be built in the western world. In was constructed in 1980 by nuns and monks of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji order, and sits alongside temple and monastery. The cherry trees above the complex were planted to remember victims of war, and you can locate the One World Tree, festoon...
In the same borough, Stony Stratford’s Georgian houses and coaching inns are in stark contrast to Milton Keynes’ grid pattern and modern buildings. It is by far the oldest settlement in Milton Keynes, earning town status in 1215 and dating back at least to Roman times. Stony Stafford is where the Roman road, Watling Street forded the Great Ouse Riv...
On Woburn Abbey’s immense grounds is a 360-acre animal park where many of the inhabitants live in enormous enclosures. A visit begins with a Road Safari, in which you’ll drive through the Northern Plains (bison, Zebra, wild horses), Savannah Grasslands (antelopes, white rhino, ostriches), Kingdom of the Carnivores (tigers, wolves, bears and lions),...
If you’re hankering for some live entertainment the Milton Keynes Theatre is one of England’s premier performing arts venues. It was a latecomer to Milton Keynes, opening in 1999 after 25 years of campaigning and planning. The auditorium is state of the art, able to raise or lower its ceiling depending on the size of the production, so catering to ...
While you’re at Bletchley Park there’s a side attraction that merits your attention in a new building close to the main entrance. Managed by the Radio Society of Great Britain, the main exhibition at the National Radio Centre is a complete précis of the history of radio communications technology. You can go on the air at a high-tech amateur radio s...
The City of Milton Keynes is a unitary authority area with both borough and city status, in Buckinghamshire. 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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Jun 15, 2024 · Milton Keynes, town and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Buckinghamshire, south-central England. Since 1967 Milton Keynes, which contains several preexisting towns, has been developed as a new town (an approach to urban planning used by the British government to relieve housing.
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