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Heritage Means Business Heritage and Business Working Together for Milton Keynes MK Heritage Developer SMA pics_GHA 17/04/2012 19:29 Page 3 Heritage Heritage Means Business Heritage and business working together for Milton Keynes Presenting The Milton Keynes Collection MK Heritage Developer SMA pics_GHA 17/04/2012 19:30 Page 2 A heritage Four decades ago the sound of diggers and cranes filled the air to be proud of as builders moved in to create the planners’ vision for a bold new city that would set the bar for modern living and create a blueprint for city building across the globe. Yet one thing the ‘new city’ of Milton Keynes wasn’t was new. For millennia this corner of North Bucks has echoed to the sounds of people’s lives: to Bronze Age communities making tools; Roman legions marching along Watling Street; monks chanting at Bradwell Priory; and the tapping of codebreakers at Bletchley Park. From Milton Keynes’ beginnings its creators – and citizens – have been determined to preserve the area’s rich and revealing past for the benefit of present and future generations. It’s a heritage of which we can all be proud, and which relies on our continuing support. In this short brochure we hope to surprise you with its variety, report on successes to date, introduce you to a new partnership dedicated to maintaining and sharing that heritage, and inspire you to get involved. Front Cover: Bletchley Park Volunteers, Bradwell Windmill Fun Day event at MK City Discovery Centre, Bradwell Abbey Connected Earth @ Milton Keynes Museum 2 MK Heritage Developer SMA pics_GHA 17/04/2012 19:30 Page 3 Contents Introducing The Milton Keynes Collection The Milton Keynes Collection is a new partnership of five museums and heritage organisations who are collaborating in order to: Raise awareness of the rich history of this area; • Part 1: Valuing the Past Win community and commercial A brief history of Milton Keynes 4 support for its conservation, History on the doorstep 6 • interpretation and development; Part 2: Enriching the Present Share resources and expertise in Thriving heritage, thriving economy 8 collections handling, governance Growing our community 9 • and volunteering; Providing a place for work, rest and play 10 Encourage greater public Part 3: Creating the Future involvement in Milton Keynes’ Priorities for heritage in Milton Keynes heritage. • Fantastic collections 11 Events large and small 12 www.mkcollection.co.uk Taking part as a volunteer 13 Part 4: The Way Forward Securing our city’s heritage 14 Contacts for more information Milton Keynes Collection 15 Milton Keynes Council 16 City centre at night Medieval chapel at Bradwell Abbey Bletchley Leisure Centre 3 MK Heritage Developer SMA pics_GHA 17/04/2012 19:30 Page 4 PART 1: Valuing the Past A brief history of Milton Keynes Milton Keynes is a unique place where modern city living combines with attractive rural landscape; where new developments rub shoulders with fourteen historic towns and villages; where twenty per cent of the land is retained as parks and open space; and where local people can be rightly proud of their history and heritage. PRE-HISTORY TO BRONZE AGE ROMAN TO MEDIEVAL CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II 175m BC 43 AD 1643 Milton Keynes covered by warm tropical Small Roman town established at Parliamentary army captures Newport sea – containing creatures such as the Magiovinium (near Fenny Stratford) on Pagnell in English Civil War Ichthyosaur recovered from Caldecotte Watling Street; villas built at Bancroft, 1767 Lake in 1982 (now in the Central Library) Gayhurst, Lavendon, Stantonbury and William Cowper, poet and hymn writer, 200,000 BC Haversham moves to Olney to join John Newton, Excavations at gravel pit in Stoke 410-1066 author of Amazing Grace and later Goldington reveal evidence for Early Anglo-Saxon settlements at influential in abolition of slavery mammoth, horse and vole living around Wolverton, Pennylands and Newport 1800 meadow pond Pagnell Grand Junction (now Union) Canal opens 9500-4000 BC c.914 linking the Midlands and London Mesolithic hunter-gatherers follow Secklow Mound recorded as Milton 1810 livestock along the fertile Ouse and Ouzel Keynes’ first seat of democracy, where Tickford Street Iron Bridge constructed river valleys leaving behind a scattering of elders meet to discuss taxes and dispense over River Lovat, Newport Pagnell flint tools justice 1817 4000-2200 BC c. 1154 Bradwell Windmill erected Early farmers clear woodland and settle Benedictine Priory of St Mary founded 1838 in river valleys – sites at Broughton, at Bradwell Abbey London & Birmingham Railway establish Heelands and Stacey Bushes c. 1250 works at Wolverton, the world’s first 2100 BC Earliest known windmill erected at Great planned railway town Tribal chieftain buried in substantial earth Linford (excavated in 1977) 1886 mound along with remains of around 300 1290 Herbert Akroyd Stuart invents oil engine cattle in Ouse valley near Gayhurst Queen Eleanor’s body rests at Stony at Bletchley, forerunner of modern diesel 1150-800 BC Stratford on way to burial at London engine (model at Milton Keynes Museum) Bronze Age Gold buried at Monkston 1464 1900 Park, (Discovered in 2000) Edward IV secretly marries Elizabeth Cowper and Newton Museum opens in Wydville at Grafton Regis, the first English Olney king to marry a ‘commoner’, sparking a 1939 new chapter in the Wars of the Roses Government Code and Cipher School 1483 takes over Bletchley Park to work on Edward V, one of the ‘Princes in the Tower’ decoding German military captured at Stony Stratford on orders of communications Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) 4 MK Heritage Developer SMA pics_GHA 17/04/2012 19:31 Page 5 Bradwell Windmill, Bradville MODERN DAY MILTON KEYNES 1967 22,000 acres of North Buckinghamshire designated for new Milton Keynes 1969 OU, the world’s first distance learning university, formed at Walton Hall 1978 Liz Leyh creates Concrete Cows at Stacey Hill Farm (now Milton Keynes Museum) 1979 The first ‘shopping mall’ in the UK opens at Central Milton Keynes 1980-85 Central library, railway station and The Point, the first multiplex cinema in the UK, open for business 1980 The Nipponzan-Myohoji monks and nuns establish the first Peace Pagoda in the Western World above north Willen Lake 1984 Living Archive established at Wolverton, one of the most successful ‘people’s’ history archives 1997 Milton Keynes Council becomes a unitary authority 2000 Milton Keynes Heritage Association is set up 2010 The city hosts its first ever International Festival of Arts 5 MK Heritage Developer SMA pics_GHA 17/04/2012 19:31 Page 6 History on the doorstep From the outset Milton Keynes’ planners were determined to integrate the area’s rich history into their new city, creating a community where ancient monuments neighbour with technology parks. Their ambition did not end there, for alongside historic features they were also creating a new heritage: landmarks, artworks, festivals that are as much a part of the story of Milton Keynes. Below we offer just a taste of where to go and what to see and do. For more, visit: www.mkheritage.co.uk CENTRAL AREA MILTON KEYNES SOuTH NORTH EAST MILTON KEYNES City Centre Bletchley Newport Pagnell Although the city centre is less than 50 It was the advent of rail travel that Once a Civil War garrison town Newport years old, there are signs of what lay transformed Bletchley from a hamlet to a Pagnell grew to be one of the largest before in street names such as Saxon Gate busy town in1845. The town’s second towns in Buckinghamshire, boasting six and Secklow Gate – named for the mound expansion came in the 1960s when the fairs a year. It was, until recently, home to behind the Central Library where 10th Greater London Council created ‘overspill’ the prestigious Aston Martin factory and century elders met to govern their housing at Water Eaton. Regeneration has its iron bridge is the oldest iron bridge in community. Nearby Campbell Park is seen the arrival of Bletchley Park – home the world that is still in constant use. home to the Chain Reaction sculpture of the WW11 codebreakers – on the Olney commemorating all those who played a international tourist circuit. Located in the north east of the borough, role in Milton Keynes’ creation. The huge Fenny Stratford Olney is a Georgian town world famous glass shopping building, thecentre: mk, Long before railways, Fenny Stratford was for its Pancake Race and as home of the was not only the first mall of its kind in the a significant part of the nation’s transport hymn Amazing Grace. Its author, John UK but was designed to align perfectly network. The remains of Magiovinium, the Newton and friend the poet William with the rising sun on the summer solstice small defended Roman town that grew up Cowper, are celebrated at the Cowper & – hence Midsummer Boulevard. alongside Watling Street, can be found in Newton Museum. The Villages the Roman gardens of Dobbies’ Garden The Villages Just outside the city centre lie some of the Centre. While the Bull and the Swan are Now owned by the Royal Society, prettiest local villages. In the East is Milton two survivors of the 40 inns and coaching Chicheley Hall is one of the UK’s finest Keynes Village, which gave the city its houses that opened in Fenny between examples of an 18th century Baroque name (though the planners liked the 1750-1810 to cater for travellers. country house. Nearby the villages of accident of it combining both a great The Villages Stoke Goldington and Gayhurst have British poet and economist). Willen village In the south east the busy villages of made their own mark on history: given by boasts a Grade 1 listed church designed Woburn Sands and Bow Brickhill both a grateful Queen Elizabeth I to Sir Francis by England’s Da Vinci – the multi-talented border the Bedford Estate, linked to its Drake in 1581 (and quickly sold on by him Robert Hooke.
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