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Other Stuff in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire*

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Stuff You Don't Get Anywhere Else

The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else

• The man in Stony is not mad...everyone else is sane.
• The Great Linford Manor recording studio has been host to Reef, Feeder, Skunk Anansi and PJ Harvey!
• Interestingly enough, if you're taking a plane to Luton Airport from Up North (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Etc), you can see the Point (red lights 'n' all) and Milton Keynes town centre from the plane. I actually managed to identify my housing estate from the air! Kewl!! (best viewed when dark as all the street lights are in a perfect grid). Or at least you can do this when flying with Easyjet anyhow.
• Milton Keynes split from Buckinghamshire on April 1st 1997. On May the 9th 1997 Milton Keynes became an independent county. It is therefore no longer part of the county of Buckinghamshire. Local residents fought for three years to obtain this split. The campaign was based on the premise that Bucks were taking our Council Tax and not spending it on Milton Keynes. For confirmation of this please read the current edition of the Ordnance Survey map in printed form or the second edition of the OS CD-ROM for 1999.
• The absolute number one best thing about Milton Keynes is any road that leads straight out of the place. The problem is finding the right road on the horrible road system. If you're looking for a missing person, you may find them in Milton Keynes, trying to find their way out!
• I live in Leighton Buzzard which is ten miles south of MK - I keep seeing MK referred to as "in the Midlands". WHAT !? I've always thought of home being in the South East of England. Where is the border ?
• This isn't a category just a correction. Milton keynes is not in Buckinghamshire anymore. It became a unitary authority in (I think)1998. And a bloody good place it is too!
• How do you get corrections made. For example there is a comment on the site saying that the ice rink has closed. THis was true a while ago but it reopened about 18 months to 2 years ago and, as far as I am aware is going from strength to strength. Can factually incorrect comments be deleted?
• Milton Keynes does have a lot of greenery, probably more than any other town I've been to in fact, but the trouble is it's a wee bit sterile. There is nothing about Milton Keynes which is natural, everything about it has been carefully designed by town planners rather than it having evolved naturally. All the greenery has been planned out, every tree is neatly ordered in a line with the others, every patch of grass is carefully cultivated by the council. Milton Keynes is nice compared to hundreds of places in this country but its like a Lego town.
• *The train station was actually used as the United Nations building in one of the earlier Superman movies. * There is a fairly nice sized outdoor market on several days. Thursdays and Saturdays are probably the best. Thirsdays is more 2nd hand good though.
• Did you know that MK has the highest number of multiple births in the UK!
• There's a big watersports centre at Willen Lake, which is quite a nice place to go on Sunny weekends for a wander.
• Where it all began (code-breaking) - Bletchley Park.
• Inter-Varsity Club, best social activity club for graduates and young professionals in their 20s and 30s. http://www.btinternet.com/~mk.ivc
• Table tennis in Milton Keynes: if you're in the least bit interested in playing (or even coaching, umpiring or just watching) Table Tennis in Milton Keynes, please check out the MKTTL site.
• Winter Gardens. Situated just west of City Centre. Has Dukes night club, a couple of bars (Bentleys and another I can't call to mind) Houstons (a Tex-Mex food joint - quite good & inexpensive) and a pizza place. Ice rink for MK Kings ice hockey team - much mindless violence.
• MK is the most American place in the Midlands. Make sure you check out the concrete cows and do some livestock surfing, great for pictures. The Point across Midsummer from the Mcdonalds is great, even if a little expensive. Try the STAR WARS game, a quid for two people. After you get the hang of the first level it's easy, but getting through the trench in the second level is darn hard. The roundabouts in MK are a blast- take them as fast as you can without killing any body. The worst places are Netherfields, Tinkers Bridge, and all those estates that look that Mattel houses gone bad. Avoid them like the plague.
  What a cheek! "Avoid like the plague." I have lived in Netherfield for seven years, and it is one of the best areas of Milton Keynes. No stuck up psuedo snobs trying to keep up with the Jones', just real people! Architecture is square but better than other estates which try to aspire to middle class twits. Lots of green areas where kids can play and become more streetwise than other areas.

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Last updated: 2007-12-17