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A 1981 plan was to place locks on the Great Ouse to make it navigable to powered craft to
Bedford. If the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway fails, the plan may be revived. Crossing
the aqueduct takes the canal from Northamptonshire to Buckinghamshire; the canal then fol-
lows the river to Haversham.
Beware, Yardley Gobion ahead .
The embankment ends at some houses, one of which has a dovecote, and the Galleon pub-
lic house. Behind this are an 1815 church in Norman style with a 1729 rectory, the remains
of a Norman motte and bailey and the site of the medieval Wolverton Village.
This is the start of Milton Keynes, Britain's largest new town, built on 89km 2 of farmland
from 1967 and featuring millions of newly planted trees and sweeping American-style roads.
Bill Bryson said 'I didn't hate Milton Keynes immediately.' It took a couple of hours of walk-
ing, trying to find the town centre with its 720m long mall, before he decided it was even
worse than Gateshead's MetroCentre. Other views are divided. Clearly, many people like the
little boxes hidden away in tree-screened cul-de-sacs and few places of this size have such
easy rush-hour driving. The town is built in a loop of the canal, which is largely parkland
where it does enter the built-up area.
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