Eagle Farm is a

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on the southeastern outskirts of

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, England, within the Wavendon civil parish. It was constructed to help the

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with its rapid increase in demand for housing. The site is part of the "Eastern Expansion Area" of Milton Keynes, identified in 2004 by the then government. The district has a primary school, St Mary's C of E Primary, with space for 600 pupils. , the estate is currently undergoing further development and construction, and is predicted to reach 2,900 homes as it grows.

Location

The estate lies opposite the Magna Park

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, on the other side of the

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. It is on the eastern outskirts of Wavendon civil parish, just outside and overlooking the village itself. From March 2018 to December 2020,

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and the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership worked on a project to dual the A421 from Eagle Farm Roundabout to Junction 13 of the M1 ( to the east of the estate), which has greatly improved accessibility to the wider road network. The nearest railway station is which is approximately to the south of the estate. The closest retail centre is the Kingston District Centre, approximately to the northwest.

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