In message , Miles Bader
writes

Incidentally, it's entirely off-topic, but is Milton Keynes as horrid as
it sounds?

I'm not sure why it sounds "horrid" - it's based around a seriously
ancient village (Middleton) that was granted to the Cahaines family
after the Norman conquest (whose property included Horsted Keynes in
Sussex as well as well as Milto Keynes).

Since the late 1960s it became a large new town, with mainly pleasant
domestic suburban architecture, but with a dismal centre and (typical of
the period) a poorly thought-out emphasis on car travel that includes a
totally unnecessary number of roundabouts

--
Paul Terry