About Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is Britain's biggest new town.

The city of Milton Keynes was built from scratch on green fields in the 1970s and 80s. Now, the population is 213,000 and it's the fastest growing urban area in Britain with plans to build 40,000 more new houses over the next few years.

It has one of the youngest populations in the whole country, an indoor ski slope, Britain's most popular theatre, huge parks and open spaces, special cycle routes and a great big indoor shopping centre.

Housing is mixed, from the ultra modern in Central Milton Keynes to Victorian terraces in the old railway towns of Wolverton and New Bradwell. If you fancy something even older there are Tudor houses in towns like Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell and even the odd Roman ruin and Medieval Abbey.

Milton Keynes is a unique and exciting place to live and people come from all over the country and the world to settle here.

In England the city is famous for its roundabouts, its trees (20 million) and its concrete cows (5).

Milton Keynes is also famous for having Britain's biggest, and we think, most exciting university, The Open University. Welcome to Milton Keynes .

The Open University arrived at Walton Hall in 1969 when the building of Milton Keynes began. Unlike any other British university, almost all its 200,000 students never attend classes on campus or live anywhere near it.

The only students who do use the campus regularly are full-time postgraduate research students (about 250 spread across various disciplines). They come from all walks of life and all over the world. Many are ‘mature' students; some are single, some come with their families.

We hope this website will provide you with lots of information, you never knew about Milton Keynes. Living here has a lot to recommend it. We have tried in the following pages to give you an idea of what to expect should you decide to come here.