Milton
Keynes, sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in
Buckinghamshire, about 45 miles (72 km) south-east of Leicester and 49
miles (79 km) north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of
the Borough of Milton Keynes. It was formally designated as a new town
on 23 January 1967, with the design brief to become a 'city' in scale.
At designation, its 89 km2 (34 sq mi) area incorporated the existing
towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another
fifteen villages and farmland in between.
It took its name from the
existing village of Milton Keynes, a few miles east of the planned
centre.
At the 2001 census the population of the Milton Keynes urban area,
including the adjacent Newport Pagnell, was 184,506, and that of the
wider borough, which has been a unitary authority independent of
Buckinghamshire County Council since 1997, was 207,063 (compared with a
population of around 53,000 for the same area in 1961[2]). The
Borough’s population in 2009 is estimated to be nearly 241,000,[3] with
almost all the increase arising in the urban area. Information fromWikipedia
About Milton Keynes
