Milton Keynes is famous for its shopping and is home to the most visited shopping centre in the UK. The city’s excellent transport links attract shoppers from all over the region to a wide range of shops – from chain stores to traditional family run businesses, and from superstores to market stalls.

Central Milton Keynes

Shopping in Central Milton Keynes is centred around three shopping centres; thecentre:mk, Midsummer Place and Xscape. Between them they boast over 300 stores, all under cover.

• thecentre:mk attracts over 31 million shoppers annually to its mix of favourite High Street retailers and department stores including John Lewis, House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer. 

• Less than a minute’s walk away, Midsummer Place lives up to its title of ‘the fashionable quarter’ with a range of designer clothing and state-of-the-art home entertainment stores, together with a flagship Debenhams. 

• At Xscape you can browse around specialist lifestyle and sports clothing stores. You could even buy a car…

• 5 times weekly at the ever-popular Milton Keynes market, you’ll find everything from hardware to what to wear.

High Street/Village Shopping

Shopping in Milton Keynes isn’t all about large retailers and chain stores. Plenty of independent, traditional, often family run shops can still be found in the original towns that make up modern-day Milton Keynes.

• The towns of Stony Stratford, Newport Pagnell, Bletchley, Wolverton, Woburn Sands and Olney all have busy high streets.
• There are plenty of farm shops for you to visit in open countryside around Milton Keynes too!

Retail Parks

In Milton Keynes you can shop ‘out of town’, right in the heart of the city, with large retail parks conveniently located just off the major grid roads. Here you’ll find electrical goods, furniture, sports shops – everything for the home and family. The district centres at Kingston and Westcroft are also home to ‘hypermarket style’ supermarkets.