Willen
Willen is a district of Milton Keynes, England and is also one of the ancient villages of Buckinghamshire to have been included in the designated area of the New City in 1967.
Willen is a district of Milton Keynes, England and is also one of the ancient villages of Buckinghamshire to have been included in the designated area of the New City in 1967. The original village is now a small but important part of the larger district that contains it and to which it gives its name. It is in the civil parish of Campbell Park.
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Worth seeing in and around Willen
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.
- 01Gulliver'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.
1.5 km · Children's theme park resort in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. · Wikipedia - 02Tickford 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.
2.5 km · Grade I listed bridge in Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, England · Wikipedia - 03Willen Lake
Willen Lake is a balancing lake that is also a visitor attraction and public park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire The site is owned by Milton Keynes Parks Trust, an independent, self-funded charity that cares for and maintains over 2,400 hectares of green space across the city. The lake was purpose-built to mitigate flooding from the River Ouzel, a tributary of the Great Ouse.
1.3 km · lake in Milton Keynes, UK · Wikipedia - 04Newport Pagnell canal
The Newport Pagnell Canal was a 1.25 mile canal in Buckinghamshire that ran from the Grand Junction Canal at Great Linford to Newport Pagnell through seven locks. Construction was authorised by an act of Parliament in June 1814 and it probably opened in 1817.
2.5 km · closed canal that ran to Newport Pagnell, Buckingham, England · Wikipedia - 05Church of Christ the Cornerstone
Church of Christ the Cornerstone is an ecumenical church in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. It was completed in 1991 and has the Church of England, the Baptist Union, the Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the United Reformed Church working together to share the space.
3.8 km · church in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
The Central Milton Keynes shopping area is a regional shopping centre located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England which is about 50 miles north-west of London. It comprises two adjacent shopping centres, thecentre:mk which opened in 1979, and Midsummer Place, opened in 2000.
3.3 km · Shopping mall in the UK · Wikipedia - 07Milton Keynes Theatre
Milton Keynes Theatre is a large theatre in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. It opened on 4 October 1999, 25 years after the campaign for a new theatre first started.
2.9 km · theatre in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England · Wikipedia - 08Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church is a 12th-century parish church in Lathbury in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1966.
3.7 km · church in Lathbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St Mary Magdalene
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is an Anglican church of the Diocese of Oxford. Named after Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene, it is located in the village of Willen, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
100 m · church in Willen, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Lawrence's Church, Broughton
St Lawrence's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.9 km · Grade I listed church in Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Willen
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 32 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km · London Stansted (STN), 68 km
- London → Willen74 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–10
- London, Essex → Willen74 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Willen93 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £10–13
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Willen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Willen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Willen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Willen
- Newport Pagnelltown in Buckinghamshire, England2.7 km
- Stantonburyvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Broughtonvillage in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK2.3 km
- Moulsoevillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, UK3.2 km
- Great Linfordvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, UK3.1 km
- Campbell Parkcivil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England2.4 km