Olney
Olney is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 6,598.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,480 residents
- Description: town and parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
- Also known as: “Olney, Buckinghamshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cowper and Newton Museum and Olney War Memorial.
Cowper and Newton Museum
Museum
The Cowper and Newton Museum is a museum in Olney, north Buckinghamshire, England, around 8 miles north-east of Central Milton Keynes. Celebrating the work and lives of two famous local residents: William Cowper, a celebrated 18th-century poet; and John Newton, a slave trader and subsequently a prominent abolitionist, who was curate in the local church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petsoe End and Lavendon.
Petsoe End
Hamlet
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Petsoe End is a hamlet in Emberton civil parish, in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The name Petsoe is used frequently in the local area, with other local hamlets being called Petsoe Manor and Petsoe Lodge.
Lavendon
Village
Photo: Nigel Stickells, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lavendon is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the northernmost village in the Milton Keynes UA and South East England, near Olney, about 8 miles WNW of Bedford and 9 miles NNE of Central Milton Keynes. Lavendon is situated 2 miles northeast of Olney.
Filgrave
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Schmidt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Filgrave is a hamlet in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 3 miles north of Newport Pagnell and 6 miles north-east of Central Milton Keynes. Filgrave is situated 2½ miles southwest of Olney.
Olney
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Olney, Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.15396° or 52° 9′ 14″ northLongitude
-0.70174° or 0° 42′ 6″ westPopulation
6,480Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB OLNOpen location code
9C4X573X+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 142797333OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Olney” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أولني”
- Asturian: “Olney”
- Basque: “Olney (Buckinghamshire)”
- Basque: “Olney”
- Bavarian: “Olney (Buckinghamshire)”
- Bavarian: “Olney”
- Bengali: “ওলনি”
- Cebuano: “Olney (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Olney”
- Chinese: “Olney”
- Chinese: “奥尔尼”
- Chinese: “奧爾尼”
- Dutch: “Olney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اولنى”
- French: “Olney”
- German: “Olney”
- Gujarati: “ઓલની”
- Hebrew: “אולני”
- Indonesian: “Olney, Buckinghamshire”
- Irish: “Olney, Buckinghamshire”
- Irish: “Olney”
- Italian: “Olney”
- Japanese: “オルニー”
- Kannada: “ಓಲ್ನಿ”
- Korean: “올니”
- Ladin: “Olney”
- Lithuanian: “Olnis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Olney (Buckinghamshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Olney, Milton Keynes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Olney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Olney i Buckinghamshire”
- Norwegian: “Olney”
- Persian: “اولنی، باکینگهامشر”
- Polish: “Olney”
- Portuguese: “Olney”
- Romanian: “Olney, Buckinghamshire”
- Romanian: “Olney”
- Russian: “Олни”
- South Azerbaijani: “اولنی، باکینقهامشر”
- Spanish: “Olney”
- Swedish: “Olney”
- Tamil: “ஒலனே”
- Telugu: “ఓల్ని”
- Urdu: “ولنے”
- Volapük: “Olney”
- Welsh: “Olney, Swydd Buckingham”
- Welsh: “Olney”
- “Olney”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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