Olney

Olney is a proper market town, not a Milton Keynes estate, and it feels like it. Stone and brick cottages line the high street, which has a butcher, a deli, independent cafes and a good mix of useful shops rather than just charity shops and hairdressers. The housing is mostly period cottages and Victorian terraces in the town centre, with some newer family houses on the edges. It is genuinely rural, surrounded by farmland, and you need a car for most things outside of daily essentials. The bus service into Milton Keynes exists but nobody would call it frequent. Families move here for the village feel and the primary schools, and it attracts people who want a quiet Buckinghamshire market town life without the price tag of somewhere like Beaconsfield.

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