23/01/1967 Milton Keynes is founded as a new town with a plan to become a city of 250 000 people
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Milton Keynes is a large town located about 45 miles north-west of London. In the 1960s, the British government decided that a further generation of new towns in the south-east of England was needed to relieve housing congestion in London.