History of Milton Keynes
This history of
Overview
In the 1960s, the UK Government decided that a further generation of
Since the 1950s,
From its establishment in 1967 to its abolition in 1992, the Milton Keynes Development Corporation created by far the largest and thus most ambitious of the British new towns. Many of Britain's most acclaimed building and landscape architects contributed to what was to be a showpiece of British design. Unlike previous new towns, Milton Keynes has a majority of privately funded development but, during the MKDC years, these developments were subject to an exacting design brief in line with the design principles laid out in The Plan for Milton Keynes.[17][18]
Pre-history and early human settlement
Long before England existed, this area was at the bottom of a primeval sea. The most notable of the
Human settlement began in this area around 2000
Milton Keynes Hoard
The area that was to become Milton Keynes was relatively rich: the
Roman Britain
Before the
The foundations of
Anglo-Saxon period
It seems that most of the Romano-British sites were
Excavations in and around the modern villages have failed to find any evidence of occupation before the 10th or 11th centuries, except in
Administration of the area that was later to become the
Secklow Mound, the moot mound of Sigelai Hundred, has been found, excavated and reconstructed:[37] it is on the highest land in the central area and is just behind the Central Library in modern Central Milton Keynes.[38]
Newport Pagnell, established early in the 10th century, was the principal market town for the area.[39]
Norman conquest and the medieval period
After the Norman conquest, the
Stony Stratford and Fenny Stratford were founded as market towns on Watling Street in the late 12th or early 13th centuries.[45][46]
By the early 13th century, North Buckinghamshire had several religious houses:
Britain's earliest (excavated) windmill is in
Only one medieval manor house survives: the 15th century Manor Farmhouse in Loughton.[49] There are sites of other manor houses in Little Woolstone,[50] Milton Keynes village,[51] and Woughton on the Green.[52] The oldest surviving domestic building is Number 22, Milton Keynes (village), the house of the bailiff of the manor of Bradwell.[34][51]
Early modern Britain
Enclosures
Most of the eighteen medieval villages in Milton Keynes are still extant and are at the heart of their respective districts. But some, such as
Turnpike roads
Some important roads cross the site of the new city. Most important of these is
Grand Junction Canal
The Grand Junction Canal came through the area between 1793 and 1800, with canal-side wharfs in Fenny Stratford, Great Linford, Bradwell and Wolverton.[54] The route bypassed Newport Pagnell but, in 1817, an arm was dug to it from Great Linford.[61] Trade along the canal stimulated the local economy. A large brickworks was established near the canal in Great Linford: two bottle kilns and the clay pits can still be seen on the site.[30] Pottery from the Midlands begins to appear in excavations of dwellings from that period.
London and Birmingham Railway, Wolverton and New Bradwell new towns
The London and Birmingham Railway brought even more profound changes to the area. The coach trade on the turnpike through Stony Stratford collapsed, taking many businesses with it. Fortunately, Wolverton was the halfway point on the rail route, where engines were changed and passengers alighted for refreshments.
Bletchley, on the 1846 junction of the London and Birmingham railway with the Bedford branch, was to become an important railway town too.[64] In 1850, another branch from Bletchley to Oxford was built, later to become the (Cambridge/Oxford) Varsity Line. Bletchley, originally a small village in the parish of Fenny Stratford, grew to reach and absorb its parent.[65] In Stony Stratford, expertise learned in the works was applied to the construction of traction engines for agricultural use and the site of the present Cofferidge Close was engaged in their manufacture.[66]
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is a former private estate located in Old Bletchley, an important
"Bigger, Better, Brighter" – Bletchley in the 20th century
Almost forty years after the construction of
(These districts are known today as Old Bletchley and Far Bletchley). The major settlement of the time is Fenny Stratford.By 1911, the population of the combined parishes was 5,166 but the balance between them had changed: in that year, the name of the local council (
Bletchley had fought to be the centre of the proposed new city, but it was not to be. The 1970 Plan for Milton Keynes placed Central Milton Keynes on a completely new hill-top site four miles further north, half way to Wolverton.[75] Bletchley was relegated to the status of suburb.
1960s plans for a new city in North Buckinghamshire, 1967 designation of Milton Keynes
In the 1960s, the Government decided that a further generation of new towns in South East England was needed to take the projected population increase of London, after the initial 1940s/1950s wave.[2] In the 1950s, the London County Council had constructed overspill housing in Bletchley for several London boroughs there.[76][77][5]
Buckinghamshire County Council's architect, Fred Pooley, had spent considerable time in the early sixties developing ideas for a new town in the Bletchley and Wolverton area. He developed a futuristic proposal based on a monorail linking a series of individual high-rise townships to a major town centre.[78] The county council published the proposals in 1966,[79] but new thinking at the Ministry of the Environment rejected its ideas.[80][e]
In 1964, a Ministry of Housing and Local Government study had recommended "a new city" near Bletchley.
When the boundary of Milton Keynes was defined, some 40,000 people lived in the 'designated area' of almost 9,000 hectares (22,000 acres).
Existing settlements and oral history
In 1967, the designated area outside the four main towns (Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford, Wolverton) was largely rural farmland but included many picturesque North Buckinghamshire villages and hamlets:
Milton Keynes Development Corporation: designing a city for 250,000 people
Following publication of the Draft Master Plan for Milton Keynes,[85] the government took planning control from elected local authorities and established the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) to deliver its vision. The Minister for Housing and Local Government (Richard Crossman) appointed Lord Campbell ("Jock" Campbell) to lead the new Development Corporation. He and his chief executive, Walter Ismay, appointed Llewellyn Davies as principal planning consultants – the team included Richard Llewellyn-Davies, Walter Bor and John de Monchaux. Execution of the plan was led by General Manager of the Corporation, Fred Lloyd Roche. The goals declared in the master plan were these:[17]
- opportunity and freedom of choice
- easy movement and access
- good communications
- balance and variety
- an attractive city
- public awareness and participation
- efficient and imaginative use of resources
The designers were determined to learn from the mistakes made in the earlier
Urban design
Since the radical plan form and large scale of the New City attracted international attention, early phases of the city include work by celebrated architects, Sir Richard MacCormac,[93]
Lord Norman Foster,[94]
Henning Larsen,[95]
Ralph Erskine,[96]
John Winter,[97]
and Martin Richardson.
"City in the forest"
The original Development Corporation design concept aimed for a 'forest city' and its foresters planted millions of trees from its own nursery in Newlands in the following years.[85] As of 2006, the urban area had 20 million trees. Following the winding up of the Development Corporation, the lavish landscapes of the Grid Roads and of the major parks were transferred to the Milton Keynes Parks Trust, an independent non-for-profit charity which is separate from the municipal authority and which was thus intended to resist pressures to build on the parks over time. The Parks Trust is endowed with a portfolio of commercial properties, the income from which pays for the upkeep of the green spaces, a citywide maintenance model which has attracted international attention.[102]
Public art
The Development Corporation had an ambitious public art programme and over 50 works were commissioned, mostly still extant. This programme also had two strands: a populist one which involved the local community in the works, the most famous of which is Liz Leyh's
Demographics
Unusually for a
Further development plans
In January 2004, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced the government's 'Expansion plans for Milton Keynes.'[106]
He proposed that the population of
Milestones since 1967
1960s
- 1961 Census: Population of districts to become (in 1974) the District of Milton Keynes = 52,931[107]
- 1967 Designation of the New Town[13]
- 1969 The Walton Hall.[108]
1970s
- 1970
- First section of new city grid road system (H2 Millers Way eastbound from V4 Watling Street).[109]
- The Stables presents its first concert.[110]
- 1971
- First major MKDC housing scheme (Galley Hill, Stony Stratford).
- 1971 Census: Population of future District of Milton Keynes = 65,925;[111] population of designated area = 46,500
- 1974
- Stantonbury Campus opens;[112](now called "Stantonbury School")
- first major grid road (V8 Marlborough Street connects Bletchley to Stantonbury (for New Bradwell and Wolverton);
- work begins on the Shopping Building (now The Centre:MK);
- the first balancing lake (Willen Lake) is finished.
- Borough of Milton Keynes created (as a district under Buckinghamshire County Counciluntil 1997)
- 1975 The first office building in Central Milton Keynes (Lloyds Court) opens.
- 1979
- First concert at Milton Keynes Bowl(Desmond Dekker/Geno Washington);
- Margaret Thatcher opens the Shopping Building.[113]
- First concert at
1980s
- 1980
- A5D opens, bypassing Watling Street;
- Peace Pagoda dedicated at Willen.
- 1981
- Homeworld 81, Central Library, Willen Hospice
- 1981 Census: Population of the Borough of Milton Keynes = 122,351;[111] population of designated area 95,800
- 1982 Milton Keynes Central railway station officially open.[114]
- 1983 Caldecottebalancing lake ready.
- 1984
- A421 road connects to M1 motorway at Junction 13;
- Milton Keynes General Hospital opens (renamed Milton Keynes University Hospital in 2015).
- 1985 Britain's first multiplex cinema, The Point, opens.
- 1986
- Energy World;
- new county court;
- Forte Crest Hotel (now Holiday Inn);
- Gyosei International School UK opens (closes 2002).
- 1987 Woughton Marina opens.
- 1989
- Furzton balancing lake,
- Bradwell aqueduct (first aqueduct on Grand Union in over 100 years).
- Milton Keynes Coachway opens.[115] It was the first of the UK's Coachway interchanges.
1990s
- 1991
- 1991 Census: Population of the Borough of Milton Keynes = 176,304;[111] population of designated area = 144,700.
- Church of Christ the Cornerstone was completed;
- De Montfort University opens Milton Keynes campus. (Closes 2003).
- 1992
- Commission for New Towns;
- Kingston District Centre;
- HMP Woodhill.
- 1994 Westcroft district centre opens.
- 1996 National Hockey Stadium opens.[116]
- 1997 District of Milton Keynes becomes the "Borough of Milton Keynes", a unitary authority.[117]
- 1999 Milton Keynes Theatre, Art Gallery and new Visitor Centre open.[118]
2000s
- 2000 Xscape opens.
- 2001
- 2001 Census: Population of Borough of Milton Keynes = 207,037;[111] population of Milton Keynes urban area = 184,506.[119] (Includes Newport Pagnell)
- 2003 Wimbledon F.C. moves to the former England National Hockey Stadium
- 2004 ('MMIV') Wimbledon F.C. renamed and relaunched as Milton Keynes Dons F.C.
- 2007 Stadium MK opens and Milton Keynes Dons move in.
- 2007 The Hub & Vizion developments are completed at the western end of CMK
- 2008 University Centre Milton Keynes opens.[120] (Becomes a campus of the University of Bedfordshire after 2012).
2010s
- 2010
- Former National Hockey Stadium is demolished, construction begins on Network Rail National Centre, Quadrant:MK.[121]
- Milton Keynes Shopping Centre is grade II listed.[122]
- IF: Milton Keynes International Festival is launched.[123]
- 2011
- 2012 Network Rail National Centre (Quadrant:MK) officially opens
- 2015 Three of the 2015 Rugby World Cup matches were played at Stadium MK.
- 2017 series of events and exhibitions to celebrate 50 years since the original designation.
- 2018
- Milton Keynes becomes the first 'city' in the UK scheduled to have ubiquitous
- The world's first urban delivery service by robot.[127]
- 2019
- The gallery is substantially extended and remodelled and includes an art-house cinema.[128]
- International prize winning design for MK:U (a planned undergraduate University of Technology) is announced, for a site near the central railway station.[129]
- Milton Keynes is designated as the European City of Sport for 2020.[130]
- The gallery is substantially extended and remodelled and includes an
2020s
- 2020
- A421 (Kingston to M1 J13) upgraded to dual carriageway.[131]
- Work begins on East West Rail (Oxford–Cambridge).[132] Work began on Bletchley Flyover rebuild.[133]
- Campbell Park is grade II listed in the 'Park and Garden' category.[134]
- 2021
- 2021 Census: Population of Borough of Milton Keynes = 287,000;[135] population of Milton Keynes urban area = 256,385.[1]
- 2022
- Hotel la Tour opens in Central Milton Keynes;[136] overlooking Campbell Park and, at 50 metres (160 ft), it is the tallest building in the city.[137]
- Borough of Milton Keynes formally awarded city status by Letters Patent on 15 August 2022 and becomes the City of Milton Keynes.[138]
Notes
- ^ The Plan for Milton Keynes begins (in the Foreword by Lord ("Jock") Campbell of Eskan): "This plan for building the new city of Milton Keynes ... "
- ^ now in collection of the British Museum, replicas are on display in the Milton Keynes Museum
- ^ At 52°00′15″N 0°39′36″W / 52.00417°N 0.66000°W (SP920348)
- ^ meaning both "the last" and "the best". The Greater London Council (GLC) was very proud of the Lakes Estate, declaring it to be the finest in modern architecture for a working class estate, based on the design concept pioneered in Radburn, New Jersey[18]
- ^ Nevertheless, the London media continued to describe Milton Keynes as though the Pooley concepts had prevailed.[81]
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THE QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 15 August 2022 to ordain that the Borough of Milton Keynes shall have the status of a City.
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External links
- Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre: History of Bradwell Abbey
- Bletchley Park Trust: History of Bletchley Park
- Milton Keynes - A Village City (1973) | Britain on Film BFI (60 seconds).
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