Stony Stratford is an old coaching town on Watling street that has become part of the city of Milton Keynes.
As the name suggests, it’s where Watling Street crossed the Great Ouse (street ford) and is a good place to stay or at least get something to eat and drink.
While you’re here, why not do as travellers in the past did and go to either the Cock Inn or the Bull Hotel and tell your own Cock and Bull story.
If you are here on a Sunday, you can listen to (or even join) the folk musicians who meet up in the Vaults Bar.
Fans of the cult film Withnail & I can pay a visit to the Market Square and the Corwn Inn to search for the finest wines known to humanity.
The X5 runs between Oxford and Bedford via Buckingham and Stony Stratford. Buses between Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell involve travelling into the centre of MK and back out again. Bus departures There are regular trains to Milton Keynes and Wolverton which is on the route. Wolverton departures