Milton Keynes is a borough in England . It was formed on April 1 , 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Bletchley , Newport Pagnell and Wolverton , Newport Pagnell Rural District and part of Wing Rural District.
Before April 1 , 1997 it was part of Buckinghamshire , but now forms an independent county of itself, making it a unitary authority . It borders the administrative counties of Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire . Its largest town is Milton Keynes .
Milton Keynes is home to the Open University , the largest University in the UK, and is the home of Bletchley Park , where Alan Turing and others worked in WWII to break the German Enigma code.
Towns, villages and hamlets in the borough of Milton Keynes
Astwood Bletchley , Bow Brickhill , Bradwell , Broughton Caldecote , Castlethorpe , Chicheley , Clifton Reynes , Cold Brayfield Emberton Fenny Stratford , Filgrave Gayhurst , Great Linford Hanslope , Hardmead , Haversham Lathbury , Lavendon , Lillingstone Dayrell , Lillingstone Lovell , Little Brickhill , Little Linford , Long Street , Loughton Middleton , Milton Keynes , Moulsoe Newport Pagnell , Newton Blossomville , North Crawley Olney Ravenstone Shenley Brook End , Shenley Church End , Sherington , Simpson , Stantonbury , Stoke Goldington , Stony Stratford Tattenhoe , Tongwell , Tyringham Walton , Warrington , Water Eaton , Wavendon , Weston Underwood , Willen , Woburn Sands , Wolverton , Woolstone , Woughton on the Green ;Westcroft