Water Eaton, Milton Keynes

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Water Eaton is an area of Milton Keynes, England and in the civil parish of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford. It is to the south of Fenny Stratford, and is one of the ancient villages of Buckinghamshire that became incorporated as part of Milton Keynes in 1967. It is now a part of the 1960s GLC-built district known as the Lakes Estate. The GLC was very proud of the Lakes Estate, declaring it to be the finest in modern architecture for a working class estate, based on the design concept pioneered in Radburn, New Jersey.^[1]

The village name 'Eaton' is Old English language word referring to a farming settlement, and the whole means 'farm by a river'.

[edit] See also

• "Bigger, Better, Brighter" — Bletchley in the 20th Century

[edit] External links

• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 51.9888° -0.7218°
  • Mapping from Multimap or GlobalGuide or Google Maps
  • Aerial image from TerraServer
  • Satellite image from WikiMapia

[edit] References

1. ^ Bendixson; Platt (1992). Milton Keynes, Image and Reality. Granta. ISBN 090-6-78-272-4.