of the county, where the former small towns of Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, and Wolverton have been absorbed by thenew townof Milton Keynes, created in 1967. That new development attracted industry and research institutions, and in 1971 it became the headquarters of Great Britain’sOpen University...
Historically, the towns of Bletchley, Wolverton, and Newport Pagnell all had built-up industries, the first two largely because of their position on, and connection with, the main railway from London to the Midlands and the north. The location of the modern unitary authority has increased its ...
Beaconsfield, town (parish), South Bucks district, administrative and historic county of Buckinghamshire, southeastern England. It is situated in the Chiltern Hills, just northwest of the Greater London conurbation. The wide main street of the old town o