History of Milton Keynes

  Because Milton Keynes is famous as a new city, visitors to the borough could be forgiven for assuming that it has no history - nothing could be further from the truth!

The building of the new town provided a unique opportunity to study and record the archaeology and landscape history of some 22,000 acres of countryside.

The Milton Keynes Development Corporation, charged with the task of building the new city, employed a team or archaeologists who located and excavated many sites in the area, making it, in effect, one of the largest archaeological sites in the country in its day.