Steve's house is a typical Milton Keynes style, built in the 1980s. Milton Keynes was created as a large suburban area, a "New City", with easy access to both London and Birmingham, so many of the homes are of this vintage. We particularly liked the house number, very easy to remember for anyone who is a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan. A lovely thing about the area is that it is chock full of trails for bicycles and pedestrians (redway map here).Yesterday Kendra and I walked down to the local shopping area down a wooded path that wound past cute brick homes and under busy streets. This morning Leif and I had a walk up to a canal. We were walking along the path that was beside a busy road and above us was an overpass, presumably for another road. Well imagine our surprise when we saw over our heads, a slowly moving boat. The overpass was not for another road, it was for the canal. (a picture here) We walked along the canal tow path and eventually came out the village of New Bradwell, with shops and a old church. When developers built Milton Keynes thirty five years ago, they incorporated a number of older villages into it, so there are some very old and charming areas. Contrary to popular opinion, the town is not named in tribute to two very famous economists Milton Freidman and John Maynard Keynes. Milton Keynes was the name of an old village in the centre of the newly created city of the 1980s. Originally called Middleton, the Normans in the 15th century renamed it "Middleton de Keynes". Over the centuries the English changed Middleton into "Milton" and dropped the "de". |
| On our way to the shops |
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| A view from a bridge over the local canal |
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| Along the tow path |
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| Church with graveyard in New Bradwell Village |
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