Kents Hill, Monkston and Brinklow


Kents Hill, Monkston and Brinklow is a civil parish that covers the Kents Hill, Brinklow, Monkston, Monkston Park and Kingston districts of Milton Keynes. As the first tier of Local Government, the Parish Council is responsible for the people, living and working in this area of Milton Keynes.
The Parish was formed in 2001 as part of a general parishing of the Borough of Milton Keynes. It is bounded by Chaffron Way, the Broughton Brook, Newport Road, Groveway, Brickhill Street, Standing Way, and the River Ouzel.

Districts of the parish

Kents Hill

The west side of this district contains part of the Open University campus, a training and conference centre for junior staff, and a Delta hotel. The rest of the district is residential, much of it overlooking a large recreational area. There is a local shop, a church, three parks and three 11-a-side football pitches in the district. There is also a school which consists of a nursery and a first school and a new all-through primary and secondary school that opened in September 2018.
In February 2020, the conference centre was used to house people evacuated from China during the COVID-19 pandemic, who were being quarantined for 14 days until being given the all-clear from risk of infection with SARS-Cov-2 virus.

Monkston and Monkston Park

This is primarily a residential district based around a large circular recreational area and a combined school. Monkston Park is near to the River Ouzel and has its own small local centre and a nearby 'village green'. Both areas although sharing a similar name are actually separated by the V10 Brickhill Street.

Pre-history

The area that was to become Milton Keynes was relatively rich: possibly the largest hoard of Bronze Age jewellery ever found in Britain was discovered in Monkston Park and consists of two late Bronze Age gold torcs and three gold bracelets. The metal detectorists who found the hoard were rewarded with 60% of the value after the authorities decided that the landowners' claim that the finders had searched without permission was unfounded.

Kingston

The Kingston district is primarily a manufacturing and distribution industries one . At its centre is a large retail complex, dominated by a Tesco hypermarket: this complex serves the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Milton Keynes.

Brinklow

This is a relatively small warehousing and industrial district. It is dominated by the large Waitrose distribution centre.

Electoral ward (Borough)

The Parish falls within the Monkston Ward of the Borough of Milton Keynes. As a result, the Parish has three Borough Councillors representing it: Andrew Buckley, Jenni Ferrans and Vanessa McPake.