County of Milton Keynes - Definition and Overview

Borough of Milton Keynes
Geography
Status:	Unitary, Borough
Region:	South East England
Ceremonial County:	Buckinghamshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 154th 308.63 km²
Admin. HQ:	Milton Keynes
ONS code:	00MG
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 59th 210,426 682 / km²
Ethnicity:	90.7% White 3.7% S.Asian 2.4% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Milton Keynes Council http://www.miltonkeynes.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Liberal Democrats
MPs:	Phyllis Starkey, Brian White

Milton Keynes is a borough in England. It was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Bletchley, Newport Pagnell and Wolverton, Newport Pagnell Rural District and part of Wing Rural District.

Before April 1, 1997 it was part of Buckinghamshire, but now forms an independent county of itself, making it a unitary authority. It borders the administrative counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Its largest town is Milton Keynes.

Milton Keynes is home to the Open University, the largest University in the UK, and is the home of Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and others worked in WWII to break the German Enigma code.

Towns, villages and hamlets in the borough of Milton Keynes

• 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;Westcroft

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