The parish of Milton Keynes covered an area of 772 hectares stretching from the River Ouzel in the west to the Newport Pagnell to Woburn road in the east and from The Broughton Brook in the north to the old furlong boundaries adjoining Walton Parish in the south.

Kents Hill lies roughly in the highest part of the parish that is at an elevation of some 76 metres above sea level. The parish was cleared of most woodland by Saxon times and was farmed mainly for livestock with some arable in a patchwork of small fields up until World War two.

The landscape at the time of our map shows this distinctive pattern of small fields surrounded by hedges. This pattern had changed little from medieval times to the coming of the new city in the late 20th century.

The 18th century map shows Milton Keynes village at the intersection of the route north to south which linked Willen and Newport Pagnell with Walton, Simpson and Fenny Stratford and the route east to west from Bradwell Common to Broughton where it linked with the Newport Pagnell to Woburn road,

Kents Hill no longer is part of Milton Keynes parish as a new parish of Kents Hill was created in July 2001 to accommodate the new community of Kents Hill as we know it. This was probably the most significant change to the parish boundaries since the time of Domesday when Mideltone was first recorded.