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Milton Keynes from 1066CHRONOLOGY OF MILTON KEYNES TO 1966 c8000BC (Palaeo-mesolithic) Loughton & Ouzel valleys c4000BC (Neolithic Heelands) Stacey Bushes c2000BC (Bronze Age) Warren Farm, New Bradwell c700BC (Iron Age) Pennyland 43AD (The Romans) Watling Street, Bancroft villa C500 (Anglo-Saxons) Caldecotte, Old Wolverton 1086 Domesday Book recorded: Bradwell, Broughton, Caldecotte, Great Linford, Great Woolstone, Little Woolstone, Loughton, Milton Keynes, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End, Simpson, Stantonbury, Water Eaton, Wavendon, Westbury, Wolverton, Woughton c11 Motte & bailey forts at Wolverton, Shenley, Bradwell c13 Markets at Fenny and Stony Stratford and Bletchley 1275 St Lawrence Bradwell c14 All Saint’s Milton Keynes, St Andrew’s Great Linford c17 Enclosures Enclosures – Wolverton (village abandoned) 1680 St Mary Magdalene Willen 1688 Great Linford Manor 1706 Turnpikes Watling Street Turnpike 1742 Stony Stratford fire
1801 Grand Junction Canal London 1,117,000 Grand Junction Canal 1810 Newport Pagnell cast iron bridge, Wolverton Iron Trunk 1815 New Bradwell Windmill 1816 New Lanark – Robert Owen 1838 London-Birmingham railway Wolverton Works 1853 Saltaire – Titus Salt Bletchley railway station 1854 New Bradwell 1878 Building society in Wolverton 1879 Bourneville – Cadbury 1886 Bletchley Cooperative Society 1887 Wolverton-Stony Stratford tram 1895 Fenny Stratford Urban District 1898 Howard: “Tomorrow, a Peaceful Path to Real Reform” 1901 London, 4,536,000 1903 Letchworth Garden City 1911 Bletchley Urban District 1912 Newport Pagnell Electra Cinema 1919 Welwyn Garden City 1930 Bletchley proposed expansion 1935 Ribbon Development Act 1939 Bletchley Park – Ultra 1941 Nat Fedn of Housing Socs New Town near Buckingham proposed 1944 Greater London Plan 1945 Jellicoe Plan for Wolverton 1946 New Towns Act (Stevenage NT designated) 1947 (Crawley, Harlow, Hemel Hempstead, Aycliffe, East Kilbride NTs) Town & Country Planning Act 1948 (Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Peterlee, Glenrothes NTs) Bletchley refused as NT; Wolverton expansion refused 1949 (Bracknell, Basildon, Cwmbran NTs) National Parks Act 1950 (Corby NT) 1951 Bucks County Development Plan Bletchley Town Dev Scheme Phase 1 (to 19,500) started before Act 1952 Town Development Act 1955 (Cumbernauld NT) 1956 Clean Air Act 1959 M1 motorway Bletchley Phase 2 (to 23,500) 1961 (Skelmersdale NT) 1962 (Livingston NT) N Bucks New City (Pooleyville) proposed 1963 (Dawley NT) Buchanan Report: Traffic in Towns 1964 (Redditch, Runcorn, Washington NTs) South East Study Pooleyville published
Milton Keynes area proposed 1965 Northampton, Bedford and N Bucks Study Pooleyville abandoned 1966 (Irvine, Newtown NTs) Euston line electrified MK Draft Designation (reduced from 27,000 to 25,200 acres) Public Enquiry (18,100 acres)
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