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The M1 runs through the heart of the constituency. To the south and west of the motorway,
we have some of the most recently built of the new town communities such as Monkston, Oakgrove,
and Kents Hill together with the villages of Broughton, The Brickhills, Wavendon and Woburn Sands.
Walton Park is the home of the Open University, Milton Keynes’s largest employer and a world
renowned establishment that has revolutionised distance learning. Caldecotte with its beautiful
lake and windmill is home to the formula one team Red Bull racing.
Central Milton Keynes with its excellent shopping centre, civic buildings, snowdome, theatre
district and cinemas, lies just within the constituency boundary and is one of the UK’s finest
examples of new town planning and testament to the city motto of ‘By knowledge design and
understanding”. It is also home to the UK headquarters of some of the world’s largest
organizations such as Daimlerchrysler, VW Audi, Coca Cola and Abbey.
Milton Keynes is of course a modern city, but it is also a constituency with great history.
To the north of the motorway, the constituency includes part of rural north Buckinghamshire,
including the town of Newport Pagnell, famous as being home of Aston Martin cars. Also to the
north of the motorway is the town of Olney, home to the famous pancake race since 1445and a
town that boasts of having been home not only of the poet William Cowper but of the slave
trader turned parish priest and author of the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’, John Newton.
The rural part includes some of the prettiest villages in Buckinghamshire, including, Weston
Underwood, Hanslope, Filgrave, Astwood, Stoke Goldington and the village of Gayhurst, where
the conspirators involved in the Gunpowder plot stayed the night before their final fateful
trip to Westminster.
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