For Leisure
South Lodge is set in an acre of landscaped gardens and borders a golf course and fields, giving it a semi-rural feel despite being under five miles from the centre of Milton Keynes and four miles from Junctions 13 and 14 of the M1. This also means there are lots of local amenities and attractions within easy distance:
Local facilities:
Restaurants: There are several excellent eating places within walking or short car distance, including both great pubs and great restaurants.
Shopping: Both your regular supermarket food and speciality outlets within a few minutes drive.
Frosts: Worthy of a paragraph to itself, this locally long established garden centre is a magnet to garden lovers from all over, and has been since the 1940s! I’d tell you it’s in walking distance but you’ll need the car anyway for carrying all those impulse buys! It also has an excellent cafe and lots of clever entertainment for children.
Places to visit:
The Stables, world class music and comedy venue, under one mile away stables.org
Woburn Abbey, Golf and Safari Park woburn.co.uk
Bletchley Park, home to the computers that helped win the war! bletchleypark.org.uk
Milton Keynes theatre, where many big productions are staged atgtickets.com/venues/milton-keynes-theatre/
Milton Keynes huge indoor shopping centre centremk.com
Xscape, home of the Snozone, Airkix, MK Casino and much more! xscape.co.uk/milton-keynes/discover-xscape
Watersports including wakeboarding willenlake.org.uk/watersports/watersports
National Badminton Centre nationalbadminton.org.uk
Football: http://www.mkdons.com
Stowe National Trust Gardens nationaltrust.org.uk/stowe
Silverstone circuit silverstone.co.uk
Within ¾ hour:
Biscester designer outlet village bicestervillage.com/en/home/
Whipsnade Zoo zsl.org/zsl-whipsnade-zoo
Harry Potter Experience wbstudiotour.co.uk/home
Watersports and many other activities willenlake.org.uk
For business stay – Wavendon Arms.