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Milton Keynes

UK Place
Area
Total Area34.4 sq mi (89 km2)
Demography
Population195687 ((2008 estimate))
Population density2198.7/km2 5688.6/sq mi
Administration
Unitary authorityMilton Keynes
Ceremonial countyBuckinghamshire
RegionSouth East England
CountryEngland
Other Information
Post townMILTON KEYNES
Postcode districtMK1 � 15 MK
Dialling code01908
UK ParliamentMilton Keynes North
Milton Keynes South

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Milton Keynes (c-enaudio=en-uk-MiltonKeynes, sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about 49 mi (78.9 km) north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes. It was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967, with the design brief to become a 'city' in scale.

At designation, its 89 km2 (34.4 sqmi) 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 centre.

At the 2001 census the population of the Milton Keynes urban area, including the adjacent Newport Pagnell, was 184,506, and that of the wider borough, which has been a unitary authority independent of Buckinghamshire County Council since 1997, was 207,063 (compared with a population of around 53,000 for the same area in 1961). The Borough’s population in 2009 is estimated to be nearly 241,000, with almost all the increase arising in the urban area.


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