Milton Keynes

Worth seeing in and around Milton Keynes

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Bletchley Park

   Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School, which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.

   5 km · WWII code-breaking site and British country house, and museum, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   The Open University

   The Open University is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus; many of its courses can also be studied anywhere in the world.

   3.9 km · university in Milton Keynes, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Stadium MK

   Stadium MK is a football stadium in the Denbigh district of Bletchley in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Designed by Populous and opened in 2007, it is the home ground of EFL League One side Milton Keynes Dons and FA Women's National League South side Milton Keynes Dons Women.

   3.9 km · football stadium in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   National Bowl

   The National Bowl is an entertainment venue located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The site was a former clay pit, filled in and raised to form an amphitheatre using sub-soil excavated by the many new developments in the area.

   2.6 km · concert stage in Milton Keynes, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   The National Museum of Computing

   The National Museum of Computing is a UK-based museum that is dedicated to collecting and restoring historic computer systems, and is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers. The museum is located on Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

   4.9 km · museum in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Hut 8

   Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park tasked with solving German naval Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing.

   5 km · section in the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Gulliver's Land Resort

   Gulliver's Land is a children's theme park resort in Milton Keynes, England. It is the third Gulliver's park, constructed after Gulliver's Kingdom and Gulliver's World but before Gulliver's Valley.

   2 km · Children's theme park resort in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Wolverton Viaduct

   Wolverton Viaduct is a railway bridge carrying the West Coast Main Line over the River Great Ouse near Wolverton, part of Milton Keynes, in southern England. Built in 1838 for the London and Birmingham Railway to the design of Robert Stephenson, it was the largest viaduct on the L&BR's route.

   5.1 km · viaduct in Haversham-cum-Little Linford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Tickford Bridge

   Tickford Bridge, over the River Ouzel in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England, was built in 1810. It is one of the last cast iron bridges in Britain that still carry modern road traffic, and is the oldest bridge in the City of Milton Keynes.

   5.5 km · Grade I listed bridge in Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Hut 6

    Hut 6 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, Britain, to solve German Army and Air Force Enigma machine cyphers. Hut 8, by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma.

    5 km · unit of Bletchley Park decryption centre · Wikipedia

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Getting to Milton Keynes

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 32 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Stansted (STN), 70 km

Stations

Milton Keynes Central railway station, 1.4 km · Bow Brickhill railway station, 5.9 km · Fenny Stratford railway station, 5.3 km · Wolverton railway station, 4.2 km · Bletchley railway station, 5.4 km

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  92 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–14
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