[3] The village's name is from the Old English middel for "Middle" and tun meaning farm or settlement[5] and the second part of the name appears to be from "Malsoures", the name of a prominent local family added much later.

The parish council area extends to include the M1 in the north between junctions 15 and 15a; to the east the A508 Northampton to Milton Keynes main road and A45 towards Huntingdon and Peterborough; to the south part of the West Coast Main Line and to the west the A43 Northampton-Oxford trunk road.

However, as this was inconvenient for election administration purposes, the Boundary Commission put Milton with fellow ward villages in South Northants Council's "Harpole and Grange"[8] ward into the Daventry Constituency previously held Tim Boswell who stood down at 2010 General Election.

The field between Towcester Road and the A43 Milton by-pass, which opened in May 1991,[11] to the west of the village was also the site of a sand quarry in the 1950s and 1960s.

The field between the village and the M1 on the north side of Collingtree Road is an area designated by Northamptonshire County Council[1] for sand extraction.

It has so far not been developed probably due to its triangular shape and stranded location between the motorway along one edge, the railway line another and a road unsuited to heavy lorries on the third.

There are 17 locks on the arm, taking the canal downhill into Northampton and to join the River Nene east of the town.

The 2011 United Kingdom census[13] showed there were 761 (2001: 713)[14] people living in the village, 359 male (2001: 344), 402 female (2001: 369), with average age 41.1 years (2001: 45.21).

A parkway station south the village was also mentioned but train operators do not want further stops on the line between London and Rugby via Northampton.

Possible expansion of Northampton south of the M1 affecting the village were excluded from draft proposals published for consultation in July 2009.

Milton Malsor has a retirement care home for the elderly in Green Street called Holly House.

Sheltered housing for older people in the form of 26 flats and bungalows is also provided in the village by South Northants Homes Ltd.[17] A shop and former post office and the modern village hall, refurbished in 2008, are both in the High Street opposite the green and War Memorial.

The Northampton Hilton Hotel is approximately 1½ miles distant on Watering Lane in the neighbouring village of Collingtree, just off the A45 trunk road.

Much of the village is in a conservation area which is shown on a map on the Parish Council website[7] and has many traditional Northamptonshire stone cottages, a large number of which have thatched or pantiled roofs.

Particular buildings of note, mostly listed by their street locations, are as follows: The county of Northants is at a north-south and east-west rail, motorway and fast road transport network.

The village has bus services to Northampton, Towcester and Milton Keynes, though this is poor on Sundays and weekday evenings.

A similar accident occurred on 31 December 1969 but about a mile further south near the northern end of Roade Cutting; on this occasion, the driver of the passenger train involved was killed.

[34] Milton Parochial Primary School in Green Street had 110 pupils in 2007, a large proportion of which were from the southern area of Northampton such as Hunsbury.

Children have access to the school hall, adjoining quiet room and a secure outdoor play area.

[37] The village is in the catchment area of Campion Secondary School at Bugbrooke, about 6 miles (10 km) away by road with the children bussed daily.