Woburn Sands

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Woburn Sands is a settlement that is mainly in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England. The county boundary with Bedfordshire runs through[link], the town so that the smaller part of the town, and especially its primary school, is that county. It is located to the south-east of Milton Keynes itself, near Wavendon.

The High Street

Woburn Sands was anciently a hamlet in the parish of Wavendon, though in modern times has declared itself to be a town in its own right, sepated from Wavendon just to the north of the Marston Vale Line.

The village name was originally Hogsty End, one of Wavendon's four 'ends' (along with Church End, Cross End and Lower End) but in Victorian times, the town council voted to change the name to something less unseemly. The modern place name is related to nearby Woburn in Bedfordshire, and to the sandy local soil resulting from its proximity to the Greensand Ridge, an escarpment of Greensand.

Woburn Sands contains many amenities, details of which are available on a local [Woburn Sands] website. It is also a reasonably well-known (but under-publicised) mountain biking destination, with car-parks at the top of Church Street.

Woburn Sands railway station, which serves the village, is located on the Bletchley-Bedford Marston Vale Line but the service is infrequent. A reasonably fast (35 mins. to 1 hour) mainline service is available from Milton Keynes Central to London Euston. Alternatively, the Thameslink service from Flitwick runs to King's Cross.

More modern housing can be found in the north of Woburn Sands (on the Wavendon side of the tracks) where more development is also planned.

Although its population is small for a town (2,246 according to the 2001 census), many inhabitants refer to it as a town, and the civil parish council has officially declared it a town. Its population and consequently its housing stock continue to grow and it may coalesce with Milton Keynes as the latter expands to meet it.

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