Looking back over your left shoulder as you go southwards along Walton Road, you now see a pair of semi-detached houses. These and six similar ones further along Walton Road were erected by the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol who owned the village from 1945 until all the land was purchased by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation. The Merchant Venturers seem to have been enlightened landlords who did their best to raise the standard of housing available for the local farmworkers, and replaced many of the more dilapidated properties (although these might today be seen as desirable cottages ripe for redevelopment!). In the background, you can see the bus shelter converted from the village forge. This was where an itinerant blacksmith would come each week to carry out his trade. Not many bus shelters can claim to have a chimney!