[2] The toponym Stanton is derived from an Old English term for "stone-built farmstead" and the bury element from the French family Barri who held it in 1235.

The foundations of a Romano-British farm known as Bancroft Roman Villa are in what is now the North Loughton Park, overlooking the Shenley Brook.

[8] A section of mosaic flooring recovered from the site is in the "guest services lounge" of Central Milton Keynes shopping centre.

[9] A copy of the famous Concrete Cows sculpture is at the southern end of the park (the original is in the Milton Keynes Museum).

This is because of the wide variety of habitats the Parks Trust has created, from old grassland managed as wildflower meadows, through patches of thorn scrub to extensive marsh.

Also known as boules, pétanque is a traditional game played with steel balls on any sandy or gravelly surface across a large part of Europe.

This small district of private housing development, part of the northern expansion of Milton Keynes outside its 1967 designated boundary, dates from about 2010.

This district lies north of Central Milton Keynes, between Great Linford and Wolverton, and south of Oakridge Park.

[14] By the latter part of the 17th century Stantonbury was almost deserted but the church was still in use; between 1668 and 1674 the Puritan poet and hymnwriter John Mason was its parish priest.

By 1973 St. Peter's was a ruin, and the east window and ornamented Norman chancel arch had been removed[8] (in 1963, to the Church of St James in New Bradwell.