{"id":236,"date":"2021-03-04T12:12:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birst.co.uk\/history\/?p=236"},"modified":"2021-03-04T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:13:29","slug":"milton-keynes-a-new-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birst.co.uk\/history\/milton-keynes-a-new-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes – A New Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Milton Keynes<\/strong> is the largest town in Buckinghamshire, England, which is located north-west of London. The town was created with an Act of Parliament in 1967 which approved the building of a new community of 250,000 people covering Buckinghamshire farmland and villages. This was due to the government decision that new towns in the South East of England were needed t0 deal with the population increase and predicted overcrowding of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the boundary of Milton Keynes was defined in 1967, some 40,000 people lived in three towns and fifteen villages or hamlets in the “designated area”. Although the development would impact the lives of the locals who already resided in the area, the intended goal of Milton Keynes was instead to encourage outsiders, mainly Londoners, to move there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This clip is from an advert from the 1980s that was commissioned to encourage Londoners to move to Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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