What nicknames have you heard for places in and around MK?

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Current_Mushroom2388@reddit

The Magic Roundabout for Marlborough Rounabout

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ZucchiniDesigner@reddit

Don’t forget the peanut roundabout too

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Fullers Slum Stoney or Fenny but not Stratford Stinkers Bridge The Shenlies covers Lodge, Church, Brook and Wood The City is Central MK (debate about whether this includes just the shopping centre or all the way to the station is subjective).

Ugly Spoons is the original Wetherspoons on Midsummer Blvd. Started off as the first one here so basically everyone went. In time 3 more opened up around the city (see above) and all the young and the groovy bogged off up the theatre district (confusing as there is only one theatre, not multiple). Us lot left behind in the original spoons are the old and haggard, hence Ugly Spoons. I include myself in this.

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Ill_Performance_3796@reddit

I've only ever known it as Old 'Spoons and never heard it referred to as anything else.

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Ill_Performance_3796@reddit

Beanhill? Netherfield better, thanks.

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Halfcelestialelf@reddit

What sprang to mind, is Going up the city =going to center MK. And" the new bit" is what we call the Midsummer place shopping centre.

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Scrubbuh@reddit

I was growing up when it was owned by intu and I still call it that sometimes.

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ryanjgillies@reddit

Agree on "going up the city", but my recollection of the new bit was always the M&S extension to the main centre. Midsummer Place was always just Midsummer or "the tree" in my circles.

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pyrasanth@reddit

All of this

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topherette@reddit (OP)

*both of this

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Bunceburna@reddit

Two Mile Trash ? Sounds like the Deep South

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cantsleeptoonoisy@reddit

Fanny Stripford was one I've heard a couple times

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RandomAccessMemory-X@reddit

Milky Beans

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lowflyingdutchman@reddit

Milton Greens for Milton Keynes. Honestly, that should be the new name. That or just Milton

Milton Greens would be a good name

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silent-noize@reddit

Milton Greens - is the headline at Ikea Plant section, just after the escalator down to the checkout. 😊

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lowflyingdutchman@reddit

So appropriate. MK4 is officially the greenest city in the UK and it will only get greener as the trees and plants keep growing.

I'd vote for an actual name change to Milton or Milton Greens

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Curvybass@reddit

The Shanger for Deanshanger, Stacey’s Bush, wolvie

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Left-Dig-4295@reddit

The natives just called it Stacey - former Stacey boy here.

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darybrain@reddit

Wolvo, 'Milton Hilton' or 'The Bletch'

These and some of the other examples must be very area or or school specific. I've never heard of them. Milk 'n' beans as cropped a small number of times but that seemed to be from kids trying to be cool. Any older teenager upwards that said that were always admonished by the wider group so it never seemed to spread.

I've heard Belch-ley or shithole more than anything else for that area. Newport Pagnell gets a lot of simply Newport or maybe Paggers or Paynel (the family name that owned the area).

Other variations are more puns of sorts to make something sound a little rude or silly but by no means were popular. For example, Stony SLutford or Slutanbury or Deansbanger/Beansbanger or Bongwell.

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Bearded_monster_80@reddit

I've heard Deanshagger ss well

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ryanjgillies@reddit

My mother (who went to school there) refers to it as 'shanger.

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ItsMrPantz@reddit

I’ve tried for years to get Crownhill etc to be know as “the west side”, and no one is having it.

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babbabeeboo@reddit

I have no clue why but I always call it Crown-ill

No reason and I grew up there for over 20 years!

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Ye_olde_oak_store@reddit

I group Crownhil with TMA Loughton and Great Holm in my head.

Doesn't feel like the west side.

You have Westcroft and the Shenleys being too prevalent in the west of MK to get the west side to work

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ItsMrPantz@reddit

Yeah that checks out - I guess it’s me living there for so long, there wasn’t much out that way for years until you got to westcroft, so it felt the westerly point, especially as I often drove in from Aylesbury

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TheMopFromMars@reddit

New Bradders

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ariadnevirginia@reddit

We called Bletchley "Belchley"

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DollyB82@reddit

My dad (here before MK was built) calls a small part of the canal between NB and Wolvie ‘Jack’s Arse’. It’s a bit where it’s thinner than elsewhere. I have no idea why but, further towards the Black Horse/Stanton Low there’s also a small wood called Joan’s Piece.

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capman511@reddit

If you ask anyone who lives in Wolverton they'd say it's Wolvie not Wolvo

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darybrain@reddit

I used to hear Wolverstan a lot many years ago from both white and pakistani/MKstani folk. Note the MKstani came from folks trying to copy Londonstani for Pakistanis living in the capital. It sounded weird how some tried to say it.

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capman511@reddit

I mean I guess but I'm not racist so it's Wolvie to me. Not saying you are racist at all just I feel that pointedly remarking on a particular ethnic demographic is kinda not on

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Psychedelia_Smith@reddit

When we moved to Wolvie the Stony Butcher as was back then referred to my new town as that. Unsurprisingly I never became a regular.

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capman511@reddit

I've never heard it called the Stony Butcher before. Would you know where that name came from maybe?

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darybrain@reddit

Like I said I've heard this from different groups over the years including those that any racist would be making fun off.

Wolverton has quite a number of folks from the Indian subcontinent who would say that as a reference to their home as they understand that the -stan, -sta, and -istan suffixes occur in various languages as markers of place, i.e. “where one stands” or “place of”.

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capman511@reddit

As with the N word I'm sure it's fine when Asian people refer to local places with the suffix 'stan' but it has very different connotations when some white dude says it.

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darybrain@reddit

This is not America. Don't get sucked into their nonsense. The concept of only certain people or groups being able to say certain things is idiotic and the majority of the rest of the world understand the context and tone of whatever is being said to understand if it is offensive, humorous, or something else. You call out shit when you see it but you also appreciate the funny or the matter of fact. I'm Indian and have no issue anyone saying something when it clearly isn't meant to offend no matter how batshit it is.

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