Milton Keynes

The new Ville of Milton Keynes was born from a law voted by the English Parliament in 1967.

With more than 210.000 inhabitants, it is most important today of the new cities in England. Milton Keynes is also the urban center which records the strongest expansion thanks to three decades of success and fast economic growth. 75% employment relate to the service sector (retail business, education, training, design of computer material and software, sector of the bank, the insurances and boards of trustees of company).

The city since many years is regarded as the “energy capital of the United Kingdom”, in particular because of the requirement of the standards applied to its buildings as regards energy efficiency and also to have accommodated several great demonstrations devoted to the innovating Architecture.

Town planning

Milton Keynes gathers several cities and districts, of old villages, all connected to each other by an highway network dense and made up of many expressways and fast tracks. The agglomeration is easily connected to London by the M1 highway.
the general plan of urbanization is geometrical: principal vertical roads recut principal horizontal roads perpendicularly. These vertical roads are numbered V1, V2, etc and carry the street name, " street" in English. The horizontal roads H1, H2, etc carry the name of ways, " way" in English. This principal network is supplemented by district distributers which serve the various districts, the zones of activities and spaces suburban. This whole of roads crosses in many roundabouts. The city is particularly well equipped in carparks.
the agglomeration is largely aired by green areas, courses of golf, parks (like the " Ouzel Valley Park" and the " Campbell Park") and of the lakes (like " Caldecotte Lake" or " Willen Lake").
Milton Keynes has many entertaining and cultural spaces (an important theater, a watery recreational center, pedestrian courses,…), a hospital with Netherfield, a University with Walnut-Tree.
the agglomeration is surrounded by forests (like Brickhill) and meadows.

Districts

Milton Keynes gathers several cities which form districts distinct in the diagram from town planning of the new city:

Newport Pagnell, in North on Great Ouse to rivet.
Great Linford, bordered by Manor Park.
Stantonbury, separated from the center of Milton Keynes by the wood of Linford.
Neath Hill.
Bradville, towards the west.
Wolverton, in the North-West, bordered by the " Ouse Valley Park" , crossed by the " Iron Trunk Aqueduct".
Stony Stratford, in the west, on Great Ouse To rivet.
Two Ash Mile, where the course of golf of Abbey Hill is.
Central Milton Keynes, crossed by broad alleys and which gathers several important equipment: regional shopping mall, railway station, church (" City Church"), police station, theater, great stage of hockey, and the park of Campbell. Central Milton Keynes is divided into districts: Fishermead, Oldbrook and Winterhill in the south, Bradwell, Heelands, Conniburrow and Silbury in north.
Downs Barn.
Springfield on Ouzel To rivet.
Milton Keynes village, with the east, initial core.
Kingston and Wavendon, on the limits Eastern.
Mount Farm and Bletchey, in the south of the agglomeration.
Furzton, with the course of golf of Windmill Hill in Tattenhoe.
Shenley Church End and Crownhill, in the west of the new city.

All these various districts are connected between them by an important highway network, with many expressways.

External bonds

Official site

Simple: Milton Keynes

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