Milton Keynes on the Web
Milton Keynes has embraced the web fully, so if it moves in MK, you'll find it on one of these!
General Information Sites about Milton Keynes
 | The best first! Milton Keynes Council and Milton Keynes Chamber of Commerce have teamed up
with many other organisations to provide a really good portal onto the City
and surrounding area
http://www.mkweb.co.uk MK Web also includes trade directories, a What's On in Milton Keynes, and
the Milton Keynes Community Organisations Information Network
(COIN) which offers details of
many of the 750 or so local voluntary and community organisations! (Who
said there's no community in MK?) |
| Milton Keynes Council
for Voluntary Organisations - the representative body for charitable-type
organisations in the area, with their own paper directory of over 500 members
|
One of the first things you learn about the area is that you're near the
border with three other counties so here's information about our neighbours!
Sites about specific parts of Milton Keynes and the surrounding area.
And the next thing you learn is that the town (strictly) of Milton Keynes
isn't the only population centre in the area - there are some lovely and
distinctive villages too, many of which now have their own websites - and the
new city area is itself made up of a number of much older towns and villages, so
here are some of them:
| Bletchley - the town at the
south end of Milton Keynes, home of the Enigma wartime code-cracking machine and much else. |
| Monkston and Kents Hill - the Parish Council's website for the parish in which I live in the south-east of Milton Keynes. |
| Everything you want to know about
West
Bletchley - an area in the south west of the city. |
| Stony Stratford
Online - one of the oldest towns in the area, at the northwest border of MK |
| Olney - a beautiful small town at the north end of the MK Council area with lots of information on COIN, but the central site, sadly, has gone. |
| Calverton - a small village to the west of the city where the
Calverton Records Project is recording history and happenings |
The Arts in Milton Keynes
Despite its non-culture image in the popular press, the arts are very much
alive and kicking in Milton Keynes. Recent surveys have shown that more people
play an instrument here than play football, and many people go to the theatre,
or practice a handcraft, dance, etc. etc. Some really varied Arts Links pages:
| Don't forget the What's On and organisations listing on the COIN database
on www.mkweb.co.uk - by far the most
comprehensive listings. |
| The Performing Arts
Newsletter - a listing of current arts events in MK. |
| Arts links in MK
|
| A number of musical events and organisations in the Milton Keynes area are
listed at this Bradwell
site |
And a few individual music organisations - if no website is quoted, find details on COIN:
| The choir I sing in, of course: the Danesborough Chorus,
a large classical choir |
| The Milton Keynes Chorale - we combine for one concert each year, but both choirs perform separately at other times |
| The excellent Milton Keynes City Orchestra |
| The Open University Choir - a good smaller choir with an interesting repertoire, meeting on Thursday lunchtimes |
| The Cornerstone Choir at MK City Church - a superb smaller choir with a
lovely venue |
| MADCAP - a mad variety of groups covering circus skills, music, theatre and more, meet at this old theatre in Wolverton |
| MK Barbershop Group - mens and womens groups locally |
| Stantonbury Brass - competition winners over many years |
| Woburn Sands Band - four bands from a youngster's training band up to the first band - simply the best in brass and silver bands locally |
And for the very best musicians from elsewhere performing here, try these
venues:
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