Editing Milton Keynes (section)

===Local government===
The responsible local government is [[Milton Keynes City Council]], which administers the [[City of Milton Keynes]], a [[unitary authority]], and [[non-metropolitan county]] in law, since May 1996.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1769/part/II/made | title=The Buckinghamshire (Borough of Milton Keynes) (Structural Change) Order 1995 | publisher=[[Government of the United Kingdom]] | access-date=15 July 2020 | archive-date=26 August 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826154345/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1769/part/II/made | url-status=live }}</ref> Until then, it was controlled by [[Buckinghamshire County Council]]. Historically, most of the area that became Milton Keynes was known as the "[[Newport Hundred|Three Hundreds of Newport]]".<ref name=vch-new>{{cite book | url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp268-269 | series=[[Victoria History of the Counties of England]] | title=A History of the County of Buckingham | volume=4 | chapter=Newport Hundred: Introduction | date=1927 | page=268{{ndash}}269 | access-date=14 April 2019 | archive-date=14 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414222229/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp268-269 | url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[City of Milton Keynes#Milton Keynes (urban area)|unitary authority area]], which extends beyond the ONS-defined Milton Keynes built-up area and encompasses the town of [[Olney, Buckinghamshire|Olney]] and many rural villages and hamlets, is fully [[Civil parishes in England|parished]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/coin/group/772?l=P |title=Parishes and Town Councils in Milton Keynes |publisher=[[Milton Keynes Council]] |access-date=3 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111512/https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/coin/group/772?l=P |url-status=live }}</ref>