About Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is a buzzing city packed with destination restaurants, retail centres and entertainment venues. Whether you’re watching a play at the Milton Keynes Theatre or seeing headline acts at The National Bowl, there’s something for everyone, night and day.
Shopping
- The centre:mk
- Midsummer Place
Eating out
- The Theatre District
- The centre:mk (shopping and dining)
- Thehub:mk (restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels)
Top Restaurants include:
- Brasserie Blanc
- Loch Fyne
- The Living Room
- The Paris House
- The Wavendon Arms
- The Taipan
- The Plough
- The Crooked Billet
- Al Tamborista
- Jaipur
Nightclubs
- Oceana nightclub
- Buddha Blue (r&b)
Leisure and entertainment
- Xscape
- City Limits (Xscape)
- The Point cinema and live music venue
- The National Bowl (outdoor live music venue)
- The Stables (alternative music venue)
- Gulliver’s Land
- Woburn Safari Park
- Cineworld cinema
Sports and activities
- Milton Keynes Dons
- SNO!zone at Xscape (Indoor real-snow skiing and snowboarding)
- Airkix (rock-climbing and indoor sky-diving)
- Willen Lake ( watersports, waterskiing and wakeboarding),
- 10 golf courses
- Daytona (karting)
- Silverstone
- Wolverton Tennis Club
- National Badminton Centre
- National Hockey Stadium
Art, Music & Culture
- Milton Keynes Theatre
- Milton Keynes Orchestra
- MK Gallery
- Madcap Theatre
Health clubs
- Virgin Active
- David Lloyd
Parks and green spaces
- Campbell Park (close to MK centre)
- Willen Lake
- Shenley, Howe Park and Linford woods
- The River Ouzel
- The Grand Union Canal
- The Ouse Valley Park
Schools
- Greenleys First School
- Greenleys Middle School
- Radcliffe School
- Slated Row School (special school)
- Milton Keynes College
Train Stations
- Wolverton
- Milton Keynes Central Railway Station
To find out more about Milton Keynes Visit:
The Cock AND The Bull, High Street, Stony Stratford
Home to the phrase A Cock and Bull Story
The Cock Hotel rose to national pre-eminence in the great age of coach travel, with as many as 100 coaches a day coming into the Town. The Hotel was the official staging post for the famous Manchester Flier. An original timetable shows that the Flier left London at 8.30am, arriving in Manchester at 5.10am the next day with a 25 minute stop here at the Cock Hotel for dinner. Other travellers staying at the Hotel and the adjacent Bull, vied with each other in the telling of outrageous ‘tales of the road’, from whence the famous phrase a Cock and Bull Story derives.
