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Milton Keynes (/ k iː n z / ⓘ KEENZ) is a city [c] in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. [b] At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes.
Milton Keynes Central railway station serves Milton Keynes and surrounding parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire (England). The station is located on the West Coast Main Line about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of London.
It is the principal navigable waterway between London and the Midlands. Starting in London, one arm runs to Leicester and another ends in Birmingham, with the latter stretching for 137 miles (220 km) with 166 locks from London. [1] The Birmingham line has a number of short branches to places including Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover, and Northampton.
The northern WCML as it weaves through the Lune Gorge in Cumbria alongside the M6. The spine between London Euston and Glasgow Central is 399 miles (642 km) long, [1] with principal InterCity stations at Watford Junction, Milton Keynes Central, Rugby, Stafford, Crewe, Warrington Bank Quay, Wigan North Western, Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme Lake District, Penrith and Carlisle.
The Oxford–Cambridge Arc (formerly the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford corridor) is a notional arc of agricultural and urban land at about 80 kilometres (50 miles) radius of London, in south central England.
A5 - serves Milton Keynes; A41 - cuts through the centre of the county, serving Aylesbury; A40 - parallels M40 through south Bucks and continues to central London; A4 - serves Taplow in the very south; Road travel east–west is good in the county because of the commuter routes leaving London for the rest of the country.
For higher education, the Open University's headquarters are in Milton Keynes – though, as this is a distance education institution, the only students resident on campus are approximately 200 full-time postgraduates. A campus of the University of Bedfordshire located in Central Milton Keynes, provides conventional undergraduate courses.
London: 59 miles (95 km) Civil parish: ... a distance of over 400 yards. ... The town is bisected by the Central Milton Keynes-Kettering A509 road, ...