<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Milton Keynes">Milton Keynes</a> (England) is founded as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_towns_in_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New towns in the United Kingdom">new town</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_in_Council" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Order in Council">Order in Council</a>, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Milton_Keynes" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Milton Keynes">evidence of continuous settlement</a> dating back to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a>.