As a modern town there are lots of things to do there. Milton Keynes is home to Xscape, Britain’s largest indoor ski centre. Xscape also has a fourteen screen multiplex cinema for the less active.
The town is famed for its concrete cows, the idea being that countryside animals would be unknown to many residents so the statues of the animals were commissioned and installed and they’re still a popular photo opportunity. A short distance away by hire car will take you to Woburn Abbey, a stately home with a great wildlife park.
Milton Keynes Mini Guide
As the town was built by the government specifically to accommodate England’s ever increasing population, Milton Keynes has been conveniently located near to the M1 at junction 14, and the M1 joins it with
Birmingham and London. You can also take the A40 to
Cambridge and Oxford. Milton Keynes operates a very effective park and ride service with hundreds of buses in operation so there is no need to get caught in traffic if you don’t want to.
Again hoping to please its residents, there is a massive 16 screen cinema in Milton Keynes as well as an indoor ski slope so there is no excuse for getting bored – however new the city might be.
These incredible features are contained within the Xscape centre which has attractions such as an indoor climbing wall and even an indoor skydiving centre. Just to complete the adrenaline rush if you head to the nearby Willen Lake there is a wakeboard tow rope system so that you can board behind a speed boat.
Teenagers are well catered to as well as there is a skate park and a BMX park in Milton Keynes. And young children can go the Gulliver’s Land theme park which has attractions based on the popular novel.
Music and live performance lovers may want to note that Milton Keynes has the most popular theatre in the country in terms of admissions and often gets West End shows which have come to the end of their run in London.
If you start to find it all too new and lifeless in Milton Keynes you can jump into your Rhino hire car to the nearby villages of Woburn and Stony Stratford to have a pint in a proper old English pub.