Milton Keynes (borough)

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is a borough in England. It was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the Bletchley Urban District, Newport Pagnell Urban District, Wolverton Urban District, Newport Pagnell Rural District and part of Wing Rural District.

Before April 1, 1997 it was part of Buckinghamshire, but now forms an independent county of itself, making it a unitary authority. It borders the administrative counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Its largest town is Milton Keynes.

Milton Keynes is home to the Open University, the largest University in the UK, and is the home of Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and others worked in WWII to break the German Enigma code.

Towns, villages and hamlets in the county of Milton Keynes

• Astwood
• Bletchley, Bow Brickhill, Bradwell, Broughton
• Caldecote, Castlethorpe, Chicheley, Clifton Reynes, Cold Brayfield
• Emberton
• Fenny Stratford, Filgrave
• Gayhurst, Great Linford
• Hanslope, Hardmead, Haversham
• Lathbury, Lavendon, Lillingstone Dayrell, Lillingstone Lovell, Little Brickhill, Little Linford, Long Street, Loughton
• Middleton, Milton Keynes, Moulsoe
• Newport Pagnell, Newton Blossomville, North Crawley
• Olney
• Ravenstone
• Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End, Sherington, Simpson, Stantonbury, Stoke Goldington, Stony Stratford
• Tattenhoe, Tongwell, Tyringham
• Walton, Warrington, Water Eaton, Wavendon, Weston Underwood, Willen, Woburn Sands, Wolverton, Woolstone, Woughton on the Green

• Milton Keynes Borough Council