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Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
In the same month, Dobbies purchased 37 Wyevale locations, doubling their reach and becoming the largest garden centre company in the UK. On 10 September 2019, the business announced the sale of its remaining centres to British Garden Centres, leading to the closure of the historic Wyevale Garden Centres brand. [17]
Bletchley has a football club, Milton Keynes Irish and a rugby union club, Bletchley RUFC, both of which play at Manor Fields just south of Fenny Stratford. Bletchley Leisure Centre was completed in 2009, replacing the original 1970s building. Stadium MK, home of Milton Keynes Dons is at the northern edge of the town. This area also contains ...
Bletchley and Fenny Stratford is a civil parish with a town council, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. [2] It was formed in 2001 from the unparished area of Milton Keynes, and according to the 2011 census had a population of 15,313. [1] Together with West Bletchley, it forms the Bletchley built-up area. [3]
West Bletchley is a district and civil parish that covers the western part of Bletchley, a constituent town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. [2] The parish consists of that part of Bletchley which is south of Standing Way/H8 ( A421 ), west of the West Coast Main Line , and north of Water Eaton Brook .
Its first garden centre was Woodthorpe Hall, built on a farm. [6] In 2010, it acquired its fifth garden centre. [7] In 2018, the firm operated ten garden centres. [4] In 2019, the company acquired 37 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres. [8] In December 2019, the firm completed its acquisition of Hillview, a chain of eight garden centres. [9]
Westcroft is a district in the western part of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the civil parish of Shenley Brook End.. Westcroft District Centre is a large retail development that serves this side of Milton Keynes (Tattenhoe, Emerson Valley, Furzton, Kingsmead, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Lodge, Oakhill, Shenley Wood, Shenley Church End and western West Bletchley).
This district is an industrial/employment area. The Milton Keynes central sorting office was here, with the post-code MK1 1AA. Many internet mapping sites assumed that this meant that it is the centre of Milton Keynes and mark it according. It is actually about three miles south of Central Milton Keynes (which has the MK9 postcode).