Newton Leys has a long history! Parts of the site have a history going back as far as the Iron Age, an archaeological evaluation commissioned by the Taylor Wimpey in 2006, found an area of occupation , just west of Jubilee Lake. This comprised at least one circular enclosure interpreted as either a roundhouse or stock enclosure, and a series of ditches, gullies and small pits and postholes as well as several spreads of occupation deposits including a significant find of Iron Age pottery. Newton Leys is located approximately 2.5 miles away from Magionvinium (a Roman market town now known as Fenny Stratford)
More recently the site making up Newton Leys was made up of Newton Longville Brickworks which opened in 1896 and contained Jubilee Works on the south side of the site (Phase 1) and Bletchley Works at the back of the site which is now the Blue Lagoon. Jubilee Lake, the centrepiece of our development is formerly a claypit used by the Jubilee Works, which was excavated for clay by and fired into Bletchley Fletton Bricks. Fletton Bricks from Bletchley were manufactured by The London Brick Company (now known as Hanson plc) and delivered all over the United Kingdom.
Jubilee Lake was created when the brook running through our development on towards the River Ouzel burst its banks and filled the pit with water.
Brickmaking finished on our site in 1990. Planning for redeveloping the site into what we now know as Newton Leys started in 1991, and went through many hurdles including being debated by local authorities in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire and the Government’s Planning Inspector before finally being approved in 2006. The first homes opened in late 2007, 16 years after they were first dreamt of! As far as we know, there are no Bletchley Fletton Bricks used in the making of Newton Leys!
More recently the site making up Newton Leys was made up of Newton Longville Brickworks which opened in 1896 and contained Jubilee Works on the south side of the site (Phase 1) and Bletchley Works at the back of the site which is now the Blue Lagoon. Jubilee Lake, the centrepiece of our development is formerly a claypit used by the Jubilee Works, which was excavated for clay by and fired into Bletchley Fletton Bricks. Fletton Bricks from Bletchley were manufactured by The London Brick Company (now known as Hanson plc) and delivered all over the United Kingdom.
Jubilee Lake was created when the brook running through our development on towards the River Ouzel burst its banks and filled the pit with water.
Brickmaking finished on our site in 1990. Planning for redeveloping the site into what we now know as Newton Leys started in 1991, and went through many hurdles including being debated by local authorities in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire and the Government’s Planning Inspector before finally being approved in 2006. The first homes opened in late 2007, 16 years after they were first dreamt of! As far as we know, there are no Bletchley Fletton Bricks used in the making of Newton Leys!