About the Area for SilverDoor Serviced Apartments in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is a large, purpose built town in Buckinghamshire, south east England, and is located about 60 miles (97 km) north west of London.

It is the principal town of the Borough of Milton Keynes and was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967. Its 89 km2 (34 sq mi) area 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 city centre. The town is laid out on a US style grid system for major roads so "V" roads are vertical (north/south) & "H" roads horizontal (east/west).

The site was deliberately located equidistant from London, Birmingham, Leicester, Oxford and Cambridge with the intention that it would be self-sustaining and eventually become a major regional centre in its own right. Planning control was taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).

The area that was to become Milton Keynes encompassed a landscape that has a rich historic legacy. It included mostly farmland and undeveloped villages, but also included evidence of permanent settlements dating back to the Bronze Age. Before construction began, every area was subject to detailed archaeological investigation: doing so has provided a unique insight into the history of a large sample of the landscape of south-central England. There is evidence of Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Medieval and Industrial revolution settlements.

Milton Keynes has one major commercial radio station, Heart 103.3 (formerly Horizon Radio), part of the Global Radio group of radio stations, which provides local programming for 10 hours a day (4 hours at weekends), with other hours being provided by network programming. The local BBC radio station is BBC Three Counties Radio, which covers Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, but has different programming from the Bow Brickhill transmitter at breakfast.

Milton Keynes has professional teams in football (Milton Keynes Dons F.C.), ice hockey (Milton Keynes Lightning), and in basketball (Milton Keynes Lions), and the Formula One motor-racing team (Red Bull Racing) is based in the town. It is represented at amateur level in many sports, some at national level. Milton Keynes is also home to the Xscape indoor ski slope.

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