Deanshanger

Deanshanger has a Milton Keynes postcode and a Northamptonshire council tax bill, which suits a village that wants the city's jobs and none of its roundabouts. Thomas Becket is said to have hidden here in 1170, got recognised by a farm labourer anyway, and was talked into producing a fresh spring with one strike of his staff, which is still the fastest public service delivery the village has had. Then it spent years asking for a bypass so Milton Keynes traffic would stop squeezing past the Beehive pub, got one in 1993, and has looked the other way ever since. It still drives into the city for work, the shops and the hospital.