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===Name=== {{Quote box|Labour Minister [[Richard Crossman|Dick Crossman]] …looked at [a] map and saw [the] name and said "[[John Milton|Milton the poet]], [[John Maynard Keynes|Keynes the economic one]]. 'Planning with economic sense and idealism, a very good name for it.'" | source = [[Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan]]<ref name=name>{{cite web |url=https://www.livingarchive.org.uk/content/local-history/topics/area-development/father-of-the-new-city |title=Father of the New City |author = Dave Persaud |publisher= Living Archive |location=Milton Keynes }}</ref> | align = right | width = 33% }} The name 'Milton Keynes' was a reuse of the name of one of the original historic villages in the designated area,<ref name=name /> now more generally known as '[[Middleton, Milton Keynes|Milton Keynes Village]]' to distinguish it from the modern settlement. After the Norman conquest, the [[Keynes family|de Cahaignes family]] held the manor from 1166 to the late 13th century as well as others in the country ([[Ashton Keynes]] in Wiltshire, [[Somerford Keynes]] in Gloucestershire, and [[Horsted Keynes]] in West Sussex).<ref name=VCH-MKV /> The village was originally known as Middeltone (11th century); then later as Middelton Kaynes or Caynes (13th century); Milton Keynes (15th century); and Milton alias Middelton Gaynes (17th century).<ref name=VCH-MKV>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp401-405 |chapter= Parishes : Milton Keynes |series= [[Victoria History of the Counties of England]] |title= A History of the County of Buckingham |volume= 4 |date= 1927 |pages= 401{{ndash}}405 |publisher= [[Constable & Robinson|Constable & Co. Ltd.]] |access-date= 17 February 2019 |archive-date= 18 February 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190218081919/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp401-405 |url-status= live }}</ref>
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