Willen is a district of Milton Keynes, England and is also one of the ancient villages of Buckinghamshire to have been included in the designated area of the New City in the 1960s. The original village is now a small but important part of the larger district that contains it and to which it gives its name. Milton Keynes is a large town (locally known as a city) in northern Buckinghamshire, in South East England, about 45 miles/75 km north-west of London, and roughly halfway between London and Birmingham. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Map of Bucks (1904) This article is about the English county. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

Environment and amenities

The church (designed by Robert Hooke)

The Peace Pagoda (Stupa)

The tiny parish church (1680) at Willen contains the only unaltered building by the architect and physicist Robert Hooke still in existence, and is a classic of the early English Baroque period. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2304, 868 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Robert Hooke Willen Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2304, 868 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Robert Hooke Willen Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (746x1002, 108 KB) A stupa near Willen lake, Milton Keynes, England. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (746x1002, 108 KB) A stupa near Willen lake, Milton Keynes, England. ... Events First Portuguese governor was appointed to Macau The Swedish city Karlskrona was founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocated there. ... Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. ... Greenwich Hospital: Sir Christopher Wren, 1694. ...

Further around the lake, there is a Buddhist Temple/monastery and a large stupa, a Peace Pagoda built in 1980 by the Monks and Nuns of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji. It was the first to be built in the western hemisphere. There is a grass labyrinth nearby. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Monastery of St. ... Stupa at Samye Ling Monastery, Scotland A stupa (from the Sanskrit) is a type of Buddhist structure found across the Indian subcontinent, Asia and increasingly in the Western World. ... A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds to help unite them in their search for world peace. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Nipponzan Myōhōji (日本山妙法寺), founded in 1947, is a neo-religious movement that emerged from the Nichiren sect of Japanese Buddhism. ... A Roman mosaic showing Theseus and the Minotaur. ...

Willen Lake

There is a large balancing lake to capture flash floods before they cause problems down stream. The north basin is a wild-life sanctuary and a favourite of migrating acquatic birds. The south basin is for leisure use, favoured by wind surfers and dinghy sailors. The circuit of the lakes is a favoured "fun run". A Balancing lake (also flood basin) is an essential element of an urban drainage system, as a means of flood storage and thus control. ... Lower Antelope Canyon was carved out of sandstone over millions of years by flash floods A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas, rivers and streams, that is caused by the intense rainfall associated with a thunderstorm, or multiple training thunderstorms. ...

Overlooking the lake, Willen Hospice provides specialist care for people whose illness no longer responds to curative treatment (also known as specialist palliative care). Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ...

History

The village was recorded in manorial records of 1189 as Wily. The name Willen is probably from Anglo-Saxon or Old English meaning (at the) 'willows': the River Ouzel meanders through land ideal for willows. Generic plan of a mediaeval manor; open-field strip farming, some enclosures, triennial crop rotation, demesne and manse, common woodland, pasturage and meadow Manorialism or Seigneurialism describes the organization of rural economy and society in medieval western and parts of central Europe. ... Events January 21 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade September 3- Richard I of England is crowned as king of England. ... See also Lovat River (Russia). ...

Miscellaneous

The parish church was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. It is reputed to be the point where several major ley lines converge. Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. ... Ley lines are alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient megaliths. ...

External link

• Map and detailed aerial photography from MKWEB
• Other location maps