A painting based upon this story is on view  just inside the main entrance of Bradwell Abbey.

Each of the various housing, retail, and industrial estates in the former designated area of the city has a theme applied to the street naming system.

Fishermead utilises names from towns and villages in Cornwall, Oldbrook famous cricketers . The name boulevard which is common to most estates as the main thoroughfare is appropriate. These roads are broad and tree-lined with an additional central line of trees.

Some other examples of naming

The last entry may require explanation. There are three boulevards running east-west through the city centre Which are crossed by Witan Gate, Saxon Gate East, Saxon Gate, and Saxon Gate West. The majority of the remaining thoroughfares are numbered e.g. South Ninth Row and North Twelfth Street. The numbers count from east to west following the NATO warship damage control marking conventions.

The names of the estates themselves were taken from two maps currently held in the county museum of Buckinghamshire, hopefully our new Milton Keynes (unitary county) Council will now require they be moved to our central library. The maps were drawn up in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

As to the naming of estates - Coniburrow is for example, located approximately on the site of the old manorial rabbit warren which provided extra meat for the festive board in the manor house at Broughton Manor. Neath Hill was the bottom hill, Springfield the field with a spring, etc.

One glorious bounty of our grid road system is that if you miss your turning, the solution is simplicity itself. You just keeping turning left until you reach the road again, the obverse is also true of course. There is rarely need to do a three-point turn or reverse because even if you reach the estate boundary there is generally a slip road across the end to facilitate turns.

Most of this road system is hidden from casual road users as virtually every estate is surrounded by a five meter high grassy embankment known as a noise mound. There are restrictions as to just how close to these mounds building can take place.