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Sitting on Midsummer Boulevard, the Jurys Inn Milton Keynes is ideal for business or leisure situated just a short stroll from all the shops, cultural attractions and offices of the town centre. With the train station also just a 2 minute walk away and the M1 within easy reach, the central location of the Jurys Inn Milton Keynes hotel is easily accessible. Take the train to Milton Keynes Central and enjoy a few days at the Jurys Inn, from where you can enjoy the delights of this new city, in the countryside of Buckinghamshire.
About Milton Keynes: Milton Keynes is a vibrant city with lots to see and do and with its location in the heart of the city centre, Jurys Inn is the perfect base in which to enjoy Milton Keynes. For more on what there is to see and do in Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes is a young, vibrant and active city which boasts a huge shopping district with major department stores as well as superb parkland around the city. Not only can you shop till you drop - there is great theatre, restaurants, clubbing, skiing and climbing to keep you entertained and that's just in the city centre! Milton Keynes is a very accessible city with excellent rail and road links with other UK cities. Perfect location for staying if visiting the Milton Keynes Bowl for an outdoor music concert. Bletchley Park with its Enigma Code Breaking centre is not too far away either. Because Milton Keynes is famous as a new city, visitors to the borough could be forgiven for assuming that it has no history - nothing could be further from the truth! The building of the new town in the South East of England provided a unique opportunity to study and record the archaeology and landscape history of some 22,000 acres of countryside. The Milton Keynes Development Corporation, charged with the task of building the new city, employed a team or archaeologists who located and excavated many sites in the area, making it, in effect, one of the largest archaeological sites in the country in its day. The first Saxon settlements in the area were at Pineland, Milton Keynes Village, Great Linford and Bancroft. These date from the 6th and 7th centuries, and a cemetery of this date was discovered at Newport Pagnell. By the 9th and 10th centuries the villages and parishes now encompassed in the borough were established. Excavations at Great Linford, Walton and Woughton have shown how the size and location of the villages has varied over the years, largely as a result of economic changes. In the 9th century the borough area was contained within the Saxon Hundreds (a Hundred was an administrative area made up of units of land known as hides) of Bunsty, Moulsoe and Secklow. The elders were entitled to gather outdoors at a special meeting place, usually a specially-constructed mound, to discuss land management, collect taxes and dispense justice. The Secklow mound was thought to have been located on what is now Bradwell Common, but in 1978 it was reconstructed on a site behind the Central Milton Keynes library to be preserved as an Ancient Monument. Later these Hundreds were combined to form the Newport Hundred which, coincidentally, covered roughly the same area as the current borough.
This hotel is sometimes used by our walking and cycling tours.
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