Location: Milton Keynes
Top Things to do in Milton Keynes
Top Restaurants in Milton Keynes
What to do and see in Milton Keynes, England: The Best Nature & Parks
Milton Keynes (/ˌmɪltən ˈkiːnz/ ( listen) MIL-tən KEENZ), locally abbreviated to MK, is a large town in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, of which it is the administrative centre. It was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967, with the design brief to become a "city" in scale. It is located about 45 miles (72 km) north-west of London.
Restaurants in Milton Keynes
1. Xscape
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 915 reviews
This sports and entertainment complex features indoor snow slopes, climbing walls, bowling lanes, a multi-screen cinema and a variety of interactive games.
Reviewed By benjaminjamesplatt - London, United Kingdom
Staff are very friendly and helpful good facilities. Had a ski lessons today at your Milton Keynes venue and our instructor was Louie and he was absolutely fantastic. Had lessons there before and he was great as well as being left handed he understood my mistakes and corrected them easily. Feeling a lot confident thanks to him. If I could book every lesson with him I would.
2. Snozone
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,331 reviews
Snozone Milton Keynes is an outstanding venue for skiing, snowboarding and sledging indoors on real snow, all year round! We’ve taught more than three million people to ski and snowboard and we offer a wide range of activities for all ages and abilities, from beginner ski lessons to freestyle snowboarding sessions and family sledging fun in the snow! We are also the only indoor operator in Europe to operate our own Disability Snow school which means we can truly deliver ‘Sport for All’. We also operate our own fully licenced restaurants ‘The Alpine Kitchen’ serving up deliciously fresh home made food seven days a week.
Reviewed By carolandjohn08
As a nervous beginner, over 50 years old, I've had 4 fab ski lessons with different instructors in the last few weeks - John, Alex, Ovi and Gary. All very patient, clear informative, and I'm making progress beyond what I expected. Slow but sure! They always work at my pace. Great facility and excellent instructors.
3. Oakridge Park
4. Great Linford Manor Park
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
A visit to the Manor Park at Great Linford gives a flavour of the 18th Century fashion for shaping the landscape. Its style and elegance have survived to this day, but the park is also full of attractions for modern-day visitors. In July 2016 we secured a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out development work for our project to Revive, Reveal and Restore Great Linford Manor Park.
5. Campbell Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 105 reviews
Located at the heart of Milton Keynes, Campbell Park hosts many of Milton Keynes’ major festivals and events. Its imaginative mix of formal gardens, water features, woodland and open pasture mean it’s an ideal spot to enjoy the changing seasons. At the top of park is a memorial to one of Milton Keynes’ founders, Lord 'Jock' Campbell of Eskan, reading 'If you seek his memorial look around'. A new piece of public art, the MK Rose, created by internationally renowned artist Gordon Young, was installed on the site of the former fountain and pond and officially launched in November 2013. Nearby, the Belvedere, offers views into Bedfordshire. Look out, too, for the labyrinth with a working sundial at its centre. Chain Reaction, the distinctive sculpture overlooking Campbell Park, celebrates all those who played a part in Milton Keynes’ creation. It is one of several artworks in the park which are also part of the Milton Keynes Art-walk.
Reviewed By ksenyae2020 - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Love this park, always very clean, loads of benches to sit down, loads of activities and festivals in summer time
6. Alders Farm Fishery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 30 reviews
Reviewed By GoAwayDay
Had a coaching session with Trevor Price to bring me up-to-date with current fishing equipment and methods. A very positive experience throughout with friendly people, beautiful location, excellent coach and caught a dozen Carp to mark my return to fishing - a wonderful day.
7. Caldecotte Lake
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 67 reviews
Reviewed By Gardenerrich - Sandown, United Kingdom
Another lovely walk around a lake, well actually 2 lakes, north and south. Took about hour and half to walk around and was very pleasant. Lots to see, plenty of wildlife. Obviously a popular place, even on a cold and windy day.
8. Ouse Valley Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 23 reviews
Reviewed By Y468WYpaulr - Wellingborough, United Kingdom
I was brought up in Old Stratford - a village at the far Western end of this nature reserve - and so am very familiar with the area. When you look at a map, it's hard to imagine that much could be done with the space remaining between roads, industry and housing developments at the fringe of the burgeoning new 'city' of Milton Keynes. So I was very pleasantly surprised by the extent and variety of this recently developed reserve. I had made brief visits to the floodplain area during the late summer and early Autumn. There are several comfortable hides set up to allow the best views of the visiting wildlife and, at that time, the series of small lakes and marshy areas were thronging with numerous kinds of waterfowl. Even at this time, there are numerous species of duck, moorhens, grebes, cormorants and swans. Helpful boards, erected in the hides, identify some of the wildlife you might spot. According to the boards, there is the possibility of spotting otters, too and I'm pretty sure water voles will be around as well. Lending an exotic feel to the landscape is the small herd of Konic horses - semi-wild horses from Poland, who have been introduced to maintain the floodplain environment by the action of their grazing. I could (and one day will) just sit in a hide for hours, watching the goings on. However, only ever to do that would be to miss out on the variety of interest the park has to offer. Last weekend I did a walk of around 10 miles from the park's carpark between Wolverton and Haversham, along the Ouse footpath on the Northern border, skirting Cosgrove Caravan park, to the Watling Street bridge at Old Stratford, looping around Stony Stratford by the Mill Field and back via Stony Stratford Nature Reserve and the floodplain area. As well as the obvious attractions of the beautiful river, old bridges and farms, wild plants birds and animals, cows, sheep and horses, there is a viaduct, an iron aqueduct supporting the canal (which you pass under by tunnel), and an old mill. If history interests you, these structures, not to mention the Roman road of Watling street and the market town of Stony Stratford are steeped the gills in it! Since Stony fell into the middle of my walk and, by cunning design, just around lunch time, I stopped in at this attractive and historic coaching town for a very pleasant snack at the Out of Office Coffee shop (there are many other pleasant eateries and pubs in town). I made my way back to the car, via the lakes of the floodplain area. All in all, it was the perfect country walk. Walking in the park is easy going. There are no challenging hills and paths are well maintained. The opportunities for varying your route or taking diversions are many. You could incorporate some of the towpath of the historic Grand-union canal, head off across sheep-grazing fields to the tiny, pretty village of passenham or head further inti the green corridors of MK via New Bradwell park, for instance. This park is great for solo walks but kids will find plenty of running and clambering opportunities and dogs patently love splashing in and out of some of the shallower stretches of the river. Congratulations to the people behind this excellent country park for their imagination, hard work and vision. Highly recommended.
9. Lodge Lake
10. Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 2 reviews
