Middleton, Milton Keynes

Middleton
All Saints' Church, Milton Keynes Village
Middleton Location within Buckinghamshire
Interactive map of Middleton
Population	5,624 (2011 Census, Milton Keynes civil parish) [1]
OS grid reference	SP888390
Civil parish	Broughton and Milton Keynes
District	City of Milton Keynes
Unitary authority	Milton Keynes City Council
Ceremonial county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MILTON KEYNES
Postcode district	MK10
Dialling code	01908
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Milton Keynes Central
List of places UK England Buckinghamshire 52°02′32″N0°42′17″W / 52.0422°N 0.7047°W / 52.0422; -0.7047

Middleton is an area of Milton Keynes, a city in Buckinghamshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Broughton and Milton Keynes. Its historic centre is Milton Keynes Village, the village that in 1967 gave its name to the city of which it is now a small part. ^[2] It is delineated by Childs Way to the north, Tongwell Street to the east, Chaffron Way to the south and Brickhill Street to the west. The River Ouzel runs diagonally through it, from west to north.

History

Name "Middelton Keynes", from Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas, 1461

The village was originally known as Middeltone (11th century); then later as Middelton Kaynes or Caynes (13th century); Milton Keynes (15th century); and Milton alias Middelton Gaynes (17th century). ^[5] After the Norman invasion, the de Cahaines family held the manor from 1166 to the late 13th century as well as others in the country (Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire, Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire, and Horsted Keynes in West Sussex). During this time the village became known as Middleton Keynes, ^[3] eventually shortening to 'Milton Keynes'. ^[6]

The original core village of the district, along Walton Road and Broughton Road, has retained its "Milton Keynes" road signs and has several rural village houses and a thatched pub which dates back to the 13th century. It is now known as "Milton Keynes Village".

Education

Middleton has two schools, Middleton Primary School and Oakgrove School, a secondary comprehensive. Both were built in the early 2000s, in the southwest of the district.

Community and leisure

There is a pub in the Milton Keynes Village, The Swan Inn. There is a village hall and pavilion. Recreational locations include Middleton Park, the Blue Funnel playground and The Poplar Plantation, a nature reserve. Leisure facilities include football, netball, martial arts and fencing. Other amenities include shops, church, allotment s, medical clinic, defibrillator s, charging station and fire station.

Governance

Current

Middleton is administered for local affairs by Broughton and Milton Keynes parish council, the tier of local government below Milton Keynes City Council. It is in the Milton Keynes Village ward of the parish, ^[7] the Broughton ward of the city council, and the Milton Keynes Central Westminster constituency of national government.

Civil parish

Early in the development of Milton Keynes (the city), the area surrounding Milton Keynes (the village) was given the name Middleton again – but the original civil parish remained as 'Milton Keynes', ^{[8] [b]} and had a joint parish council with Broughton. ^[9] From 1 January 2025, the parishes merged formally to become a single civil parish, 'Broughton and Milton Keynes'. ^[10]

Notes

1. However, the names "Mydilton Keynes" and "Milton Keynes" appear on the same membrane of the Plea Roll, CP40/764, dated 1452. ^[4]
2. So Milton Keynes (the village) is in Middleton (the grid square), which is in Milton Keynes (the former civil parish), which is one of a number in Milton Keynes (the city), which in turn is in the City of Milton Keynes unitary authority district. The modern city centre is a civil parish in its owe right, called Central Milton Keynes.

References

1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Milton Keynes (E04001263)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 19 November 2019.
2. Dave Persaud. "Father of the New City: Lord Campbell of Eskan, first Chair of Milton Keynes Development Corporation". Milton Keynes: Living Archive. Labour Minister Dick Crossman who "…looked at [a] map and saw [the] name and said 'Milton the poet, Keynes the economic one. Planning with economic sense and idealism, a very good name for it.'"
3. "Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; 1461 (CP40/800)". Anglo-American Legal Tradition. University of Houston. 1461. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022. See last paragraph, at the start of line 5, "Middelton Keynes"
4. first entry: Richard Kent; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/H6/CP40no764/aCP40no764fronts/IMG_0938.htm  ; and last entry on http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/H6/CP40no764/aCP40no764fronts/IMG_0939.htm
5. "Parishes : Milton Keynes". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. 4. Constable & Co. Ltd. 1927. pp. 401–405.
6. Woodfield, Paul (1986). A guide to the historic buildings of Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes: Milton Keynes Development Corporation. ISBN   978-0903379052.
7. "Broughton & Milton Keynes Village - The Parish Council". www.broughtonandmkv-pc.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
8. Parishes in Milton Keynes Archived June 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine - Milton Keynes Council.
9. "Parish Boundary and Parish Wards" (PDF). Milton Keynes City Council. 2 April 2019.
10. "MILTON KEYNES REGISTRATION DISTRICT". UK Births, Marriages, Deaths and Censuses on the Internet. Retrieved 17 November 2025.

External links

• Broughton and Milton Keynes Parish Council web site.