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Newport Pagnell

Newport Pagnell
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About Newport Pagnell

Newport Pagnell is a town and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The Office for National Statistics records Newport Pagnell as part of the Milton Keynes urban area.

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Newport Pagnell beat Watford Gap by about two weeks in 1960 to become the first motorway service station.

from 374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 at 00:03:06 · read transcript

Other times Newport Pagnell came up

  1. It's the first one as you leave London going northbound for the M1 or westbound for the M4. Right. The first historically, it's between two. I think so it'd have to be called Watford Gap, which isn't great. Or Newport Pagnell, which is quite a cool name, actually. Yeah. There's this amazing website called motorway servicesonline.co.uk. I really think we should start doing a series of insanely good websites about really arcade subjects.

    No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen

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Coordinates: 52.0870, -0.7220

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