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Home - United Kindom ArticlesBuckinghamshireBekonscot Model Village An unforgettable experience for everyone - this unique piece of heritage is just waiting to be explored. Depicting rural England in the 1930’s, time has stood still in a wonderland of miniature nostalgic make-believe. Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Take a trip back to the golden age of rail travel with a ride behind a vintage steam locomotive at this working steam railway museum. Over 30 locomotives and carriages and wagons set in and around a 150 year old station – now an award winning visitor centre. Cowper and Newton Museum The home and 18th Century gardens of William Cowper, poet, translator of Homer, letter-writer and gardener. Displays memorabilia of Cowper and John Newton, evangelical curate of Olney, former sea-trader and world-famous author of “Amazing Grace”. Milton Keynes Theatre Managed by Ambassador Theatre Group, the Milton Keynes Theatre opened in Octover 1999 and is one of the most technologically advanced new theatres in the country and a committed home to the biggest and best range of touring theatre.. Milton’s Cottage Milton’s Cottage is a Grade I listed 16th century cottage where John Milton lived and completed ’Paradise Lost’ and started ’Paradise Regained’. Waddesdon Manor This National Trust property (built 1874-89) is a magnificent French Renaissance-style chateau housing the Rothschild collection of art treasures including Sèvres porcelain and works by Gainsborough and Reynolds. |