Milton Keynes Best Places to visit

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • In this video I show you all the best places to go on your visit to Milton Keynes. Stay tuned to the end as I show you the best places to shop, eat and drink, get active and enjoy your visit.
    MK Shopping Centre (Centre MK)
    Included Sites:
    - Snow Dome (Xscape)
    - Theatre District
    - MK Gallery
    - Hotel La Tour
    - Campbell Park
    - Willen Lake
    - Gulivers Land
    - MK Dons Stadium
    - Tree cathedral
    - National Sci Fi museum
    - Pixel Bunker
    I've not included the concrete cows.
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Комментарии • 117

  • @sriramsivakumar2384
    @sriramsivakumar2384 10 месяцев назад +8

    I have visited many places in the world and I have to say the creativity, attractions, architectural beauty, modernity, greenery and liveliness of this city make me truly proud to call this place home.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  10 месяцев назад

      Well said. Thank you

  • @zeenatmoh
    @zeenatmoh Год назад +11

    I lived here for two years and I really loved it there. Such a beautiful and quiet town❤. The Centre: MK and Willen Lake are must visit for anyone visiting. Oh and the green spaces are added advantage. During the 2020 lockdown, I’d occasionally take long walks and go to the woods to enjoy the beautiful greenery, so therapeutic ❤.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Thanks for your comment

    • @janinaami1281
      @janinaami1281 Год назад

      How much rent here for Husband & wife
      One bedroom how much rent monthly?

  • @MrBeketibor
    @MrBeketibor 10 месяцев назад +1

    There is so much to do and see in Milton Keynes. It is the biggest city in Buckinghamshire and we truly love it!

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for your comment

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      It sprawls over much of Buckinghamshire...destroying what natural beauty the county had.
      If you love cars , motorways and major roads, anti organic American grid system, car parks and concrete I guess
      MK is the place for you. If you are fond of wild life, woods, organic growth, community, walking, amenities close by like cafés
      independent small shops , not requiring a car dive to get to to featureless mega stores you find everywhere,
      good public transport such as trams you'll have to look elsewhere

  • @michaelclarke8972
    @michaelclarke8972 Год назад +5

    This is modern Milton Keynes! There is not one single shot of any of the already-existing towns (Wolverton, New Bradwell, Stony Stratford, Bletchley) that were joined together by the building of Milton Keynes. They are all part of Milton Keynes but seem to be totally ignored by everyone.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад +1

      Correct all modern MK. I've created a video about where I think people would want to go to on a visit to MK. That doesn't mean other parts of MK aren't valid, this is just where I feel people would want to go. Perhaps I'll do a video on those parts of MK too

    • @translucent.
      @translucent. Год назад

      Stony Stratford, home to elves and little folks

  • @AymanTravelTransport
    @AymanTravelTransport Год назад +2

    I love how it only took the place 50 years (many towns wait for centuries) to officially become recognised as a city; it's basically Britain's newest city in every sense of the word. Hope they get trams eventually, cos the width of the many of the roads are just perfect to build tram lines on.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад +2

      Trams would be a great addition to the city. I rode on trams recently in another UK city and it was a really useful way to get around

    • @AymanTravelTransport
      @AymanTravelTransport Год назад

      @@Big-GVideo 100%, especially a tram line connecting Central Station to Midsummer Place, then heading onwards along the wide boulevards to the Coachway outside the M1. Also, another tram line branching off to Newport Pagnell, which currently has no rail link to MK unlike Bletchley or Wolverton. What do you think of the current bus network to get around the city btw?

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  11 месяцев назад +1

      I’ve not heard good things about the buses, but this was some time ago. I like using Lime bikes to get around

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      It is a car centric grid pattern American style suburb. You don't think trams cross any of the planners' minds do you.
      They LOVE cars and concrete. Where I live we've had modern trams since 1980. That's 44 years!
      What a backward place MK is. It was designed for commercial chains, and the road, motorway lobby ( ££££££) The internet is
      putting an end to the shopping malls.....
      The hatred of anything organic is disgusting- art equals concrete cows!!!! Concrete and cars aieeeee

  • @davidmckirdy4063
    @davidmckirdy4063 3 месяца назад

    I've visited Milton Keynes twice I am planning a 3rd visit soon I do love it there need to explore it further .

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  3 месяца назад

      Thanks for your comment. I hope the next visit is good

  • @detlefalle2385
    @detlefalle2385 Месяц назад +1

    Nice! Great place.

  • @harrysingh9949
    @harrysingh9949 Год назад +3

    Aaaah! Milton Keynes!! What a lovely video this is of the city!! Job well done!! 😁👍

  • @sheenushandilya
    @sheenushandilya Год назад +1

    Great place for skipping crowd n live peacefully

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      It sure is

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      You mean driving about in your polluting car I suppose in urban sprawl. I think that is soul destroying

  • @lr3521
    @lr3521 Год назад +1

    And the home of the Open University which I will be visiting this week during my stay at the Mercure Hotel

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Yes that's correct the OU is based there too. Hope you're visit is good.

  • @ebeyslough
    @ebeyslough 4 месяца назад +1

    I know about Milton Keynes from The Style Council. Love from the US of A

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  4 месяца назад

      Thank you so much

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      Not surprised an American would like this sprawling car centric place. Britain is a small island. The US is big. Most of Britain has been covered by places like MK 😞

  • @bluebellbeatnik4945
    @bluebellbeatnik4945 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think it looks a bit grim but thank you for showing us. I wonder what it looks like when the sun is shining. It looks very industrial. I think blokes don't care much about the aesthetics of a place just about what there is to do in each place. I think you should do another video and show the high street (stony stratford). It's much cuter and looks more traditional, much less industrial and impersonal. It's cosy and inviting and somewhere you'd want to go for a bit of lunch or to meet people.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for your comment. I'll consider making a video on Stony

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      Interesting that the only nice place appears not to be MK but what was there before and had grown organically - Stony Stratford!
      I agree with you that what we see on this video looks a bit grim and unwelcoming.

  • @KingstonUponThames
    @KingstonUponThames Год назад +3

    Nice video, love this video and the city

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Thank you so much for your comment

  • @iansteel5569
    @iansteel5569 5 месяцев назад

    Great video, you must really love MK.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you. I do like MK!

  • @emilyk2278
    @emilyk2278 Год назад

    The Robot Café is a great place to visit and the Museum in Wolverton. Loved the video thank you.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Wow Robot cafe! I’d not come across that. Can I ask where is it?

    • @Milton-KeynesiaMagazine
      @Milton-KeynesiaMagazine Год назад +1

      Robotazia was in 12th Street, but it has closed down now.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      How dp you get to these places? Walk? By tram? By bus? Car I imagine 😞

  • @mrsilbo6499
    @mrsilbo6499 Год назад +7

    Fantastic city

  • @ThomasField-t8i
    @ThomasField-t8i 4 дня назад

    You build a city from scratch and still don’t build big detached homes? What’s the fascination in the UK with terraced housing. Also, MK needs a skyscraper district for businesses an residential to entice more businesses to move in.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  4 дня назад

      Just to be clear, I wasn't involved in the building or planning of MK. There's the usual mix of housing in MK. I think hhere's plenty of detached houses

  • @greatchain
    @greatchain 9 месяцев назад

    Hello, I want to make a video review about Milton Keynes and studying at the Open University. Can I use your video for the introduction part?

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  9 месяцев назад

      Hello. Thanks for reaching out, really appreciate it. Can you send me an email about this please? Email address is on my about page

  • @paramedicoSir
    @paramedicoSir Год назад +1

    GREETINGS...
    I have UK permanent resident permit.
    *I want to know that' how to take room on rent in MK ?

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Hello. Sorry I don't know the answer.

  • @podcoach08
    @podcoach08 9 месяцев назад

    Hi Big G, I am making about MK for my work. I have taken loads of pictures but I don't have the funds for a drone. Would you be ok if I used some of the footage from your video as it's the best I've seen on RUclips. I would be using 10/15-second clips.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  9 месяцев назад

      Hello. Really appreciate you reaching out to ask. Please can you email me as I normally charge for reuse of footage

  • @internetvideocompany
    @internetvideocompany 11 месяцев назад

    Some nice drone footage - would you be interested in licencing some of it?

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  11 месяцев назад

      Yes. I’ve responded to your email

  • @philipashbourn1538
    @philipashbourn1538 8 месяцев назад

    MK is very car dependent - leading to high obesity among all ages - and the recently US acquired buses are facing severe cutbacks. Nevertheless a great place to live and residents are friendly. With so many family and friends here I have no wish to move after 47 happy years here.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  8 месяцев назад

      I’ve not heard good things about the buses in MK. I would have thought people would take to cycling more in MK

    • @philipashbourn1538
      @philipashbourn1538 8 месяцев назад

      Sadly, I can no longer cycle but rely on buses and taxis, as well as family and friends to get about. Cycle use in MK as always been very low, apart from very active recreational cycling groups. This has always been the case in all the new towns where motoring was made easy and cycling not so, even in MK where non cyclists claim the Redway is perfect while cyclists see there are a lot of unconnected routes and recent developments still car dominant with cycling and walking given low priority and underpasses rarely built even to get across busy main roads.
      You are right about the hotel. Just have a coffee and view the surrounding countryside.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      Wow!! Obesity in MK - who'd have thought it. American acquired buses? Tell me more.. I never heard of them.. but I get the impression there's not much public transport and that if you don't have a car for any reason you are stranded.Nothing seems to be within walking distance and I guess that if you are handicapped or ill you've had it.

  • @jamescokl3
    @jamescokl3 7 месяцев назад

    Is a one bed council flat expensive there? I suppose the cheapest places are the bad areas.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  7 месяцев назад

      Sorry I have no idea about the costs of accommodation or how this compares with other areas

  • @MENSA.lady2
    @MENSA.lady2 Год назад +35

    Milton KLeynes is proof that a town does not need to be old to be a slum

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад +3

      Thanks for your comment

    • @instantincident1939
      @instantincident1939 Год назад +1

      What do you mean by "Slum" ?

    • @kash7553
      @kash7553 Год назад +8

      @@instantincident1939 go visit FisherMead the slumsssss

    • @Luluknights
      @Luluknights Год назад +1

      ​@@kash7553there's more than one estate that's a slum, I could give you a list.

    • @S4SQU4TCHYT
      @S4SQU4TCHYT 7 месяцев назад

      Fishermead is a dive.

  • @AZadeh-nd8vx
    @AZadeh-nd8vx 11 месяцев назад +3

    There is literally nothing good about Milton Keynes lol I was there today and it just reminded me how soulless and depressing it is. It's like a giant airport car park 😂

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  11 месяцев назад

      I disagree, but respect that people have their own valid opinions

    • @TheRip72
      @TheRip72 11 месяцев назад

      The city centre does lack character but the city functions very well. You should have looked a little further than the centre when you were there: Lots of parks & lakes nearby, a snow dome (real snow), sky diving simulator, easy to get around by bus, e-scooter, hardly every any traffic jams. The biggest running club in the UK, regular rail service to London & Birmingham. Redway network so pedestrians rarely need to cross traffic at road level.

    • @bluebellbeatnik4945
      @bluebellbeatnik4945 10 месяцев назад

      haha. I was thinking this as well. It looks grim coming from London.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  10 месяцев назад

      @@bluebellbeatnik4945 Thanks for your comment

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      Thank you so much for confirming the impression I got from this video. So glad I live elsewhere in a nicer place. 'A giant airport car park'!! lovely.

  • @Luluknights
    @Luluknights Год назад +2

    I was born and live in MK its a lonely place to live, most of the estates aee tired and rundown. Population is growinf rapidly and the infrastructure is dated. We desperately need a second Hospital but this will very unlikely be funded by gov.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear about your perspective

    • @UvgvgVgg
      @UvgvgVgg 11 месяцев назад

      Oh. I was about to go but that's a let down

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  11 месяцев назад

      @@UvgvgVgg Thanks for your comment

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      Thank you for that. I imagined from what I've seen that its sprawl and spread-outness would make for loneliness. Greetings to you from this Brit living in France

  • @MagikGimp
    @MagikGimp 2 месяца назад

    Um... Birmingham would absolutely blow your mind, mate...

  • @G1NZOU
    @G1NZOU Год назад

    The Church of Christ the Cornerstone is great, I go there for blood donations and they set up the equipment in the central space, really cool to lie back and stare up at the dome while you're hooked up.
    I live fairly close to Willen Lake, and it's excellent for walking, there's the Ouzel river valley right next to it as well so you can walk for ages right down the city through unbroken green space.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Thanks for letting me know this

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      'Green space' sounds very municipal... no natural trees and plastic 'flowers' and severely mown ( to eliminate life) 'grass'.

    • @G1NZOU
      @G1NZOU 4 месяца назад

      @@daydays12 MK has over 22 million trees and over 5,000 acres of parkland.
      We call it green space because some is mixed woodland, some is open grass area like some of the fields along the Ouzel Valley Park and Campbell Park which occasionally gets used for cattle and sheep grazing, and some is mixed.
      And no, the grass is not severely mown, parts of it are deliberately left as wildflower havens.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      @@G1NZOU Thank you for that information. I am glad there is at least some concern for the natural environment.
      On the video I saw quite a few spindly looking specimens of trees.
      How many mature trees were there before MK was built?
      How many acres of fields and meadows?
      The planners said ( I heard interviews with some of them) they didn't care about fields farms etc.

  • @janinaami1281
    @janinaami1281 Год назад

    How much rent to live a family in this place. One bedroom For husband & wife.

  • @harman_sarawan
    @harman_sarawan 7 месяцев назад

    any job full time

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  7 месяцев назад

      There's good employment in MK

  • @SpotlessLeopard
    @SpotlessLeopard 8 месяцев назад

    I had a poo in Milton Keynes.
    It was ace.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  8 месяцев назад +1

      Which was ace? Milton Keynes?

    • @SpotlessLeopard
      @SpotlessLeopard 8 месяцев назад

      @@Big-GVideo Yeah, and the poo.

  • @Jessejsckson
    @Jessejsckson 5 месяцев назад +3

    Best things to do in Milton Keynes: leave

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  5 месяцев назад

      Thanks for your comment

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад +1

      That seems to be the consensus. It is a totally inorganic, even anti organic place.

  • @daydays12
    @daydays12 4 месяца назад

    What's that eight lane highway straight through the middle of a town? Monstrous American style car centric 'design'. England doesn't have much space and less country side... so why rip up what little countryside remains for an eight lane highway with concrete blocks around it..
    .I was really shocked by what I saw on your video. The total disrespect for the natural world and the glorification of the motor car. Where are the trams, the light railway, the communities..anything organic? England is too small for this 'planned' American sprawl.

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  4 месяца назад

      Thank you for your comment

  • @x0nks
    @x0nks Год назад +5

    It looks so artificial and ugly

    • @Big-GVideo
      @Big-GVideo  Год назад

      Thanks for your comment

    • @AZadeh-nd8vx
      @AZadeh-nd8vx 11 месяцев назад

      It is 😂

    • @TheRip72
      @TheRip72 11 месяцев назад +2

      The city centre may be, but the parks & lakes are not. The grid roads may look a bit repetitive but they are also very fast because there are so few hold-ups. If you prefer to be stuck in traffic looking at terraced houses while going to work or shopping, then maybe you would prefer somewhere else?

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 месяца назад

      @@TheRip72
      Trams are an excellent way of getting about in my city. No hold ups.
      If driving fast in cars is all there is to life I suppose it must be a great place.
      I think that there is more to life than that...and it is that "more" that MK seems to lack... a collection of amenity less, shopless suburbs plonked down on once beautiful countryside sort of connected by a grid system of highways
      with large quantities of concrete and asphalt plus more and more unused and dilapidated shopping malls... all of it an old fashioned out of date American car centric model.