Broughton

Broughton is a historic village, and modern district in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, approximately 3 miles east of Central Milton Keynes. Historically a civil parish in its own right, it is now part of the Broughton and Milton Keynes civil parish.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Willen Lake and Gulliver’s Land.

Willen Lake

Park

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Willen Lake is a visitor attraction, public park and purpose-built balancing lake in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Created during the development of the city in the 1970s, it forms part of its surface-water and flood-control system.

Gulliver’s Land

Theme park

Photo: Dmitrij M, CC BY 3.0.

Gulliver's Land is a children's theme park resort in Milton Keynes, England. It's the third Gulliver's park, constructed after Gulliver's Kingdom and Gulliver's World, but before Gulliver's Valley.

St Lawrence’s Church, Broughton

Church

Photo: Andrew Tatlow, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Lawrence's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Broughton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Milton Keynes and Newport Pagnell.

Milton Keynes

Photo: Dmitrij M, CC BY 3.0.

Milton Keynes is a city of 245,000 people in the South East of England. Milton Keynes is well known in the UK as a planned city built in the 1960s with emphatically modernist architecture.

Newport Pagnell

Town

Photo: Richard Schmidt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Newport Pagnell is a town and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The Office for National Statistics records it as being part of the Milton Keynes urban area. Newport Pagnell is situated 3 miles northwest of Broughton.

Middleton

Suburb

Middleton is an area of Milton Keynes and part of the civil parish of Broughton and Milton Keynes. Its historic centre is Milton Keynes Village, the ancient village that in 1967 gave its name to the city of which it is now a small part.

Broughton

Type: Locality
Location: Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.0507° or 52° 3′ 3″ north

Longitude

-0.6871° or 0° 41′ 14″ west

Elevation

200 feet (61 metres)

Open location code

9C4X3827+74

GeoNames ID

7291158

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