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Milton Keynes More Than Just Concrete Cows
ilton Keynes is a city, a coaches from London Victoria
part of the unitary Coach Station and Golders Green
authority of the Borough Bus Station, and there are
of Milton Keynes, in several other bus services to the
Central-Southeast England, Midlands and North. Stagecoach,
located 72 km (45 miles) on the other hand, operates a
northwest of London and coach service running to Oxford,
approximately midway between Milton Keynes, Bedford, and
Oxford and Cambridge. The name of Cambridge.
this purpose-built,
high-technology 'new city' is Milton Keynes has over 350 dining
taken from the traditional Milton establishments in and around the
Keynes Village, which is still city, offering almost every type
there, housing a lovely thatched of local and international
pub, village hall, and a church. cuisine to suit all tastes and
budgets. The Theatre District,
The nearest international for example, has everything from
airport, Luton, is located about oriental cuisine to fast food
50 km away, which is mainly used chains such as Pizza Hut.
by low cost airlines, such as Smaller, independent restaurants
Easyjet and Ryanair. Birmingham can be found in outlying areas
International Airport is also such as Stony Stratford,
located about a 100 km away. Most Wolverton, and Fenny Stratford.
of the train services are Some of the most crowded and
operated by Virgin and lively pubs and clubs are also
Silverlink, and there are located within this district,
frequent services to London, with venues offering a range of
Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester modern, thrilling, sporty,
and further north. National laid-back and friendly
Express maintains long-distance atmospheres. As for more
traditional pubs, head along the Sands, and Olney.
Stony Stratford high street.
The most visited tourist
There are many places to stay in attractions in Milton Keynes
and around Milton Keynes from include Bletchley Park, where
small, friendly bed and code breakers during World War II
breakfasts through to the usual were sequestered; Xscape, a
large hotels. You may even get to sports and entertainment complex
see the famous concrete cows when that features indoor snow slopes,
you visit this new town. climbing walls, bowling lanes, a
multi-screen cinema and a variety
Being one of the major retail of interactive games; Willen
areas in Southeast England, Lake, 180 acre lake and park,
Milton Keynes has an extensive offering all types of
variety of shops, markets and watersports, high ropes course,
superstores. The Centre in Milton adventure golf, play area, mini
Keynes is one of Europe's longest railway, pub and cafes;
shopping centres, which houses a Gulliver's Land, a theme park;
number of high street stores and National Hockey Stadium, where
smaller, specialist shops. the MK Dons play home games;
Midsummer Place shopping centre, Milton Keynes Theatre, where
on the other hand, is a £150 travelling shows and long running
million establishment which productions are staged; the
provides the city with an Bletchley Park museum of wartime
additional 430,000 sq ft of city cryptography; and the Milton
centre shopping. More traditional Keynes Museum, which features the
shopping atmosphere can be found Stacey Hill Collection of rural
at the older towns of Stony life that existed before the
Stratford, Newport Pagnell, foundation of the new city.
Bletchley, Wolverton, Woburn
Some of the popular festivals and Sherlock's Excellent Adventure,
events in the city include Salsa Events, Slava's Snowshow,
Gardening Show, Free Events, etc.
Campbell Park Fireworks,
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