Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre located in Milton Keynes, England which is 46 miles north-west of London. It is managed in two separate parts, thecentre:mk and Midsummer Place.

The Milton Keynes Development Corporation started to build the original "Shopping Building" in 1973.
It was envisaged as European-style glass-covered shopping streets or arcades on the scale of the Galleria in Milan, and it formed a glass-and-steel envelope for 130 shops and six department stores, arranged down two parallel daylit streets, planted with tropical and temperate trees.

There is an open-air garden square (Queen's Court); there is a covered exhibition hall (Middleton Hall); and Midsummer Place was built around an existing oak tree that survives in an open area (Oak Court).

Outside the centre is an open-air market. Also, on the other side of Midsummer Boulevard, there is another building (the Food Centre) containing food shops.

The Milton Keynes shopping centre is in the Guinness Book of World Records, holding the title of World's Longest Shopping Mall. I HAVE NOT CHECKED THIS MYSELF in the book, but can definitely say that its quite a long mall and it is tiring to walk across.

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