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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 lakes.
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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.
May 17, 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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Jan 23, 2017 · The name, Milton Keynes, doesn't come, as some people think, from a combination of the names of the poet John Milton and the economist Maynard Keynes. The town was built around a village whose ...
Jan 23, 2017 · BBC News. Most towns grow and evolve over hundreds if not thousands of years. Not so Milton Keynes, which is 50 years old. Perhaps the best known of the 20th Century "new towns", it has its...
With the coming of the Normans around the eleventh century, the originally Anglo-Saxon village Middle Farm (Middleton) became known as Middleton Kaynes under the Norman lord of the manor De Cayennes. This later became Milton Keynes. The oldest domestic building still standing in this area is 22 Milton Keynes, a 14th Century manor house.
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