Farm buildings

SOURCE: John Aikin. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester (London, 1795), before p. 451 NOTES: The house was originally built in the mid 16th century but altered and extended in the following two centuries.

NOTES: This drawing may depict a colonial scene, possibly in the United States.

NOTES: Bickley Hall was built in 1780 and was later acquired by George Wythes who developed the estate from the 1860s onwards. The Wythes left Bickley in about 1908.

NOTES: In addition to being a landscape and architectural painter, lithographer and archaeologist, Bouet was also appointed Inspecteur de la Societe Francaise d'Archeologie. This drawing is one of a number of topographical studies and details of French, German, Italian and Swiss medieval architecture executed by him between around 1850 and 1865.

NOTES: Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between, was designated a new town in 1967 and planning control was thus taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).