Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes sits in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire in South East England. Designated as a new town in 1967, it now operates as a unitary authority and gained city status in 2022. The area was laid out on a grid of horizontal and vertical roads identified by H and V numbers (for example H3 or V6), and those corridors are interwoven with a redway network for cyclists and pedestrians that stretches for over 200 miles. Water features such as the River Ouzel and stretches of the Grand Union Canal form continuous open corridors across the district.

Central Milton Keynes contains the main shopping and commercial centre and Milton Keynes Central station on the West Coast Main Line offers frequent services to London Euston. The Open University campus at Walton Hall is within the borough, and Bletchley Park sits to the south-west as a historic site tied to wartime codebreaking. Business parks and distribution centres sit close to the M1 corridor, which shapes the local economy and transport connections.