Woughton (parish)

Woughton (/ˈwʊftən/ WUUF-tən) is a civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

After construction every new home came with a voucher from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC), allowing the new occupants to choose and plant a tree sapling.

Notably the underpass painted in the Wizard of Oz theme, which was between Beanhill and Coffee Hall, at the back of Lammas.

Beanhill has local shops, a meeting place, a medical centre, and a first school and a nursery, both called Moorlands, although on different sites.

It has houses surrounding parks with children's playing equipment, outdoor furniture (often used for street parties) and a large area of greenery.

The estate was largely designed by Dixon, Jones, Gold and Cross[4] around 1971, and is essentially modernist; it comprises several long parallel terraces, designed around the landform so that the roofline remains level: homes towards the top of the slopes are single storey; those at the bottom are three-storey.

The choice of prefabricated construction materials was partly a consequence of a shortage of bricks in the UK at the time.

Milton Keynes Council has gradually been renovating the estate, adding a pitched roof when funds permit.

Peartree Bridge is mainly composed of a crescent of modern terraced housing overlooking the Grand Union canal and backing onto Marlborough Street (the V8 grid road).

[5] In autumn 2010, the campaign was launched after a group of residents surveyed the three estates and found that over 90% of those who responded supported the proposal.

[8] In November 2011, Milton Keynes Council changed their decision and instigated the new parish,[9] with the temporary title of Ouzel Valley.