MK11 was voted as "best live music pub" by readers of local culture magazine Monkey Kettle in The municipal public art gallery, MK Gallery, [47] presents free exhibitions of international contemporary art. The 1, seat Milton Keynes Theatre opened in The theatre has an unusual feature: MK also has a literature scene, with groups like Speakeasy [48] meeting regularly and hosting performance events, and former poetry and arts magazine, Monkey Kettle which ran between and Milton Keynes Arts Centre offers a year-round exhibitions, family workshops and courses.
Situated across many of Great Linford Manor's exterior buildings barns, Almshouses , Pavilions , the Arts Centre offers a special historical setting. It is based in a 16th-century grade II listed Farmhouse building. The Art Centre has been providing spaces for professional working artists to create work since The oldest part of the house was built in the sixteenth century and has been greatly extended over the years. It has several acres of garden and is home to several protected species of bats and newts. Milton Keynes Forum is the registered civic society for MK.
The Open University 's headquarters are in the Walton Hall district; though because this is a distance learning institution, the only students resident on campus are approximately full-time postgraduates. Cranfield University , an all-postgraduate institution, is in nearby Cranfield , Bedfordshire. Milton Keynes College provides further education up to foundation degree level, however a Postgraduate Certificate in Education [55] course is available; run in partnership with and accredited by Oxford Brookes University. This was originally branded 'The Polytechnic: Although Milton Keynes does not yet have its own conventional local university, its founders hope that the University Campus Milton Keynes will be the seed for a future 'Milton Keynes University'.
MK is currently the UK's largest population centre without its own university proper. Like most parts of the UK, the state secondary schools in Milton Keynes are Comprehensive schools , such as Stantonbury Campus and Denbigh School , although schools in the rest of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire still use the Tripartite System. Access to selective schools is still possible in Milton Keynes as the grammar schools in Buckingham and Aylesbury accept some pupils from within the unitary authority area, with Buckinghamshire County Council operating bus services to ferry pupils to the schools.
The Safety Centre is a purpose-built interactive centre which provides safety education to visiting schools and youth groups via its full-size interactive demonstrations known as Hazard Alley. MKCDC is therefore a research facility, as well as offering a broad education programme with a focus on urban geography and local history to schools, universities and professionals.
MKCDC also holds an annual programme of events at the medieval priory site on which they are based. It is associated for medical teaching purposes with the University of Buckingham medical school. The first commercial radio station for Milton Keynes was established in under the name Horizon Radio.
The station launched on CRMK [61] is a voluntary station broadcasting on the Internet. Milton Keynes has consistently benefited from above-average economic growth. Outside of London, it is ranked as one of the most attractive places for business along with Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.
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In November , the Milton Keynes Citizen reported ratings company Experian as describing Milton Keynes as one of the leaders in a prospective economic recovery. In January , it was announced that Milton Keynes had seen the highest growth in jobs out of the biggest 64 towns and cities in the UK during the preceding decade.
Milton Keynes saw its number of jobs increase by As a key element of the New Town vision, Milton Keynes has a purpose built centre, with a very large "covered high street" shopping centre, theatre, art gallery , a multiplex cinema, hotels, business district, ecumenical church, Borough Council offices and central railway station. Milton Keynes consists of many pre-existing towns and villages, as well as new infill developments. The designated area outside the four main towns Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford, Wolverton was largely rural farmland but included many picturesque North Buckinghamshire villages and hamlets: The historical settlements have been focal points for the modern development of the new town.
Every grid square has historical antecedents, if only in the field names. The more obvious ones are listed below and most have more detailed articles. Bletchley was first recorded in the 12th century as Blechelai. Its station was a major Victorian junction the London and North Western Railway with the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Line , leading to the substantial urban growth in the town in that period.
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It expanded to absorb the villages of Water Eaton and Fenny Stratford. The famous Enigma code was cracked here, and the building housed what was arguably the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. The house is now a museum of war memorabilia, cryptography and computing. The routes of the medieval trackways many of which are now Redways or bridleways converge on the site from some distance. Nowadays there is only a small medieval chapel and a manor house occupying the site. Bradwell itself is a traditional village with earthworks of a Norman motte and bailey and parish church.
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There is a YHA hostel beside the church. New Bradwell , to the north of Bradwell and just across the canal and the railway to the east of Wolverton, was built specifically for railway workers. It has a working windmill , although technically this lies just a few yards outside of the parish boundary.
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The level bed of the old Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line ends here and has been converted to a Redway, making it a favourite route for cycling. Great Linford appears in the Domesday Book as Linforde , and features a church dedicated to Saint Andrew , dating from Today, the outer buildings of the 17th century manor house form an arts centre , and Linford Manor is a prestigious recording studio.
Milton Keynes Village is the original village to which the New Town owes its name. The original village is still evident, with a pleasant thatched pub , village hall , church and traditional housing. The area around the village has reverted to its original name of Middleton , as shown on old maps of the s.
The oldest [65] surviving domestic building in the area, a 14th-century manor house, is here. The manor house of Walton village, Walton Hall , is the headquarters of the Open University and the tiny parish church deconsecrated is in its grounds. The tiny Parish Church at Willen contains the only unaltered building by the architect and physicist Robert Hooke. Nearby, there is a Buddhist Temple and a Peace Pagoda , which was built in and was the first in the western world. The north basin is a wildlife sanctuary and a favourite of migrating aquatic birds.
The south basin is for leisure use, favoured by wind surfers and dinghy sailors. The circuit of the lakes is a favoured "fun run". The original Wolverton was a medieval settlement just north and west of today's town. The ridge and furrow pattern of agriculture can still be seen in the nearby fields and the Saxon rebuilt in Church of the Holy Trinity still stands next to the Norman Motte and Bailey site.
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Modern Wolverton was a 19th-century New Town built to house the workers at the Wolverton railway works , which built engines and carriages for the London and North Western Railway. Data on the economy, demography and politics of Milton Keynes are collected at the Borough level and are detailed at Economy of the Borough and Demographics of the Borough.
However, since the urban area is predominant in the Borough, it is reasonable to assume that, other than for agriculture, the figures are broadly the same. Some statistics however are collected at the urban area level too. Of the remaining enterprises, The population is significantly younger than the national averages: The Borough of Milton Keynes is fully parished.
These are the parishes, community councils and the districts they contain, within Milton Keynes itself. The nearest cities are Leicester, Cambridge, London and Oxford. Milton Keynes has six railway stations. Milton Keynes Central is served by inter-city services. Woburn Sands railway station , also on the Marston Vale line, is in the small town of Woburn Sands just inside the urban area.
The M1 motorway runs along the east flank of MK and serves it from junctions 13, 14 and The A5 road runs right through MK as a grade separated dual carriageway. Other main roads are the A , linking Milton Keynes with Wellingborough and Kettering, and the A and A , both running west towards Buckingham and east towards Bedford. Many long-distance coaches stop at the Milton Keynes coachway , [] beside M1 Junction 14 , some 3. Regional coaches stop at Milton Keynes Central. Milton Keynes is also served by Arriva-branded services from Aylesbury and Luton as well and Stagecoach East which operate routes to Oxford , Cambridge , Stagecoach Midlands which operates routes to Peterborough and Leicester.
Milton Keynes is served by and provides part of routes 6 and 51 on the National Cycle Network. The nearest international airport is London Luton Airport , accessible by Stagecoach route 99 from MK Central station, which runs with wheelchair-accessible coaches. There is a direct rail connection to Birmingham International station for Birmingham Airport.
Proposals in for a third London airport at relatively nearby Cublington were rejected. Recorded temperature extremes range from The nearest Met Office weather station is in Woburn , [] located just outside the south eastern fringe of the Milton Keynes urban area.
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