Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes and was formally designated as a new town on 23rd January 1967 with the design brief to become a "city" in scale to accommodate overspill from London.

At designation, its 34 square miles 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 2011 census the population of the Milton Keynes urban area, including the adjacent Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands, was 229,941, and that of the wider borough, which has been a unitary authority independent of Buckinghamshire County Council since 1997, was 248,800, (compared with a population of around 53,000 for the same area in 1961.

Curly Watts spent a month in the town beginning in August 1990 on a management-training course at the Bettabuys branch located there. Liz McDonald moved to the town in November 1998 along with Michael Wall, Jim McDonald's occupational therapist after the two began a relationship behind his back and remained there for the next two years.