The population of MK borough around was about 16, people, equivalent to the population of Newport Pagnell now. This was found from parish records from the time.
In John Newton a former slave ship captain was made curate at Olney. He was later influential in the abolition of slavery. He was a friend of poet William Cowper, who also settled in Olney. During the 18th century our population slowly grew to 18, people, and these were counted in the first Census in Although the Grand Junction Canal had already been opened and the network expanded over the Great Ouse with the Iron Trunk Aquaduct in , the railways had also begun to snake through industrial Britain at pace.
As Wolverton was a central point on the London — Birmingham line it became a pivotal works station for servicing both trains and passengers en route. On the same line, Bletchley also became a popular station with further cross country links introduced from Oxford in , then Bedford and Cambridge in With all this productivity and expansion it is not surprising to see that the population had risen to 35, by the time of the Census in The 20th Century Bletchley becomes the centre of attention, albeit secret at the time , when Bletchley Park is the location for the hub of code-breakers spurring victory at the Battle of Britain.
In Londoners had started to move into the new areas of Bletchley, boosting the population to 42, altogether in Milton Keynes. As the city takes shape, the infamous Concrete Cows are unveiled in Bancroft , the following year sees the Shopping Centre open its doors although it was originally without doors, until so many complaints of cold persuaded the developers to finally add them! Those who have grown up there tell of a very different Milton Keynes. Simon Clawson arrived in MK aged four.
He now lives there with his two children and wife Hannah. His youth in the town was marked by a series of exciting arrivals - the first cinema called The Point, the football stadium and the Snowdome building. My kids are going to grow up in Milton Keynes, so it is now about what they need and want.
Theo Chalmers, of the campaign group Urban Eden, claims recent development in the town has "betrayed" its founding principles. He cites the narrowing of boulevards around The Hub leisure quarter and the filling in of underpasses as examples.
So how will Milton Keynes look in years' time? It will be bigger, with greater architectural diversity and more homes, says Lee Shostak, one of the town's early planners. So, in , the American research student joined the development corporation as a planner.
Mr Shostak, who made Milton Keynes his home from until , said the town had been an "outstanding success". It was envisaged as a low-density, low-rise city of light industry and convenience.
Today two-fifths of Milton Keynes is open space. If London had been built according to such principles, it would be the size of East Anglia. Milton Keynes has about roundabouts. It is hard to be more precise about their number since it is growing all the time. Like concrete cow pats, but bigger, they appear mysteriously overnight.
Houses and industrial estates are often hidden behind grassy banks and thickets of willow, pine and dogwood. The city has its detractors. Milton Keynes was premised on the cultivation of community spirit and charitable sentiment. Just a few more reasons why Milton Keynes is a model worth following. Midsummer Boulevard is so called because the sun rises at its east end on the summer solstice. One solstice, the architects lit an all-night bonfire — and some marijuana — and played Pink Floyd on the green fields they would soon pave.
The square miles city has 15 lakes and 11 miles of canals. Birmingham, of course, boasts more miles of canals than Venice and more trees than Paris, so take it with a grain of salt.
This created a community keen to progress and move forward. The two-seater LUTZ Pathfinder reached speeds of 15mph, which is faster than the average vehicle speed in London, where gridlocked motorists have recently created their own driverless cars by chucking the keys through the window and wandering off. By there is expected to be a fleet of 40 pods of driverless cars changing how people travel around Milton Keynes.
It is also a Go Ultra Low city with initiatives including a network of electric car charge points, and electric bus fleets. Milton Keynes has more than 22 million trees and shrubs, around for every resident.
Milton Keynes started off as a state-funded city and today could serve as a model for how urban planning can confound austerity today. At Snozone in the Xscape leisure complex are two ft-high real snow slopes, topped up each day with fresh snow.
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