Borough of Milton Keynes

Borough of Milton Keynes
status	Unitary Authority , Borough
region	South East England
Ceremony county	Buckinghamshire
Administrative headquarters	Milton Keynes
surface	308.63 km²
Residents	268,607
was standing	2018
ONS code	00MG
Website	www.miltonkeynes.gov.uk

Milton Keynes is a borough in England . It was created April 1, 1974 through a merger of the urban districts Bletchley , Newport Pagnell and Wolverton , the Newport Pagnell Rural District and parts of the Wing Rural District .

Until April 1, 1997, the Borough of Milton Keynes was a district of Buckinghamshire . Since then it has been a unitary authority that is administratively independent from Buckinghamshire. The borough borders the administrative counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire . The largest place is Milton Keynes .

Milton Keynes is home to the Open University - the UK's largest university - and Bletchley Park , where Alan Turing and others successfully deciphered the Enigma during World War II .

Cities, villages and communities

• 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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′  N , 0 ° 46 ′  W