A Tour of Milton Keynes

The Concrete Cows This information has been provided courtesy of the AA.

Introduction

On the edges of Bow Brickhill are the Bow Brickhill Woods. Parts of the area were wooded in 1086 and there have probably been some trees here throughout the last 10,000 years. Iron Age people built a hill fort at least 2,000 years ago and since then people have changed the landscape over and over again, by creating arable land from forest, then heathland from arable, then forest from heath and so on. The woods themselves change in nature from place to place on the walk and will continue to do so as areas are harvested and replanted.

Start/Finish Point

Milton Keynes Central station. Simply change onto a train to this station at Bletchley.

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Access and General Information

Length: 3 miles

Time: 2 hours

Directions

1 With your back to the station, aim slightly left, line up with a row of flag-poles and make for two underpasses. Keep ahead along Midsummer Boulevard, passing the sculpture on the left. Make for the next subway and cross Witan Gate and Upper 5th Street. Swing left just before the next subway to visit the domed Church of Christ the Cornerstone. Keep the church on your left and continue to Silbury Boulevard, passing under the subway.

2 Turn right and pass Milton Keynes Library and Exhibition Gallery. Pass North 9th Street and a statue of the Lloyds black horse at Lloyds Court. Swing right and pass under the road to approach the shopping centre at Deer Walk. Don't enter the complex here, but instead turn left and walk along to the next entrance at Eagle Walk. Go straight through, pass a map of the shopping centre and emerge at Midsummer Boulevard.

3 Turn left to Field Walk and turn right here to cross the boulevard. Bear left to reach the tourist information centre, Milton Keynes Theatre and the city's gallery. Continue ahead under the subway and cross the footbridge into Campbell Park. Skirt the round pond and make for the beacon that represents the highest point in the park. As you approach it, turn sharp right and follow the path as it snakes down through the park. Roughly 30yds (27m) before a circular seat bear sharp right to join a grassy path alongside a fence. Make for a kissing gate and turn right. Walk along to the next path junction, with a kissing gate on the right. Turn left here, back towards the centre of Milton Keynes. Keep to the left to join a wide concrete ride and follow the waymarked city centre route.

4 Cross the road bridge to Bankfield roundabout and go straight ahead along Avebury Boulevard. Cross Secklow Gate and Lower 10th Street, and turn right into Lower 9th Street. Pass The Point and bear left into Midsummer Place shopping centre. Cross the concourse and pass the police station. The Church of Christ the Cornerstone can be seen from here. Keep left and return to Avebury Boulevard, turning right to the underpass. Walk down to Grafton Gate, veer right just before it and head for Midsummer Boulevard. Go through the underpasses and return to the railway station at the start.

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