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Shelby Township is a civil township of Oceana County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,951 at the 2000 census. The village of Shelby is located within the township.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 93.5 km² (36.1 mi²). 93.2 km² (36.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (0.28%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there were 3,951 people, 1,388 households, and 1,059 families residing in the township. The population density was 42.4/km² (109.8/mi²). There were 1,502 housing units at an average density of 16.1/km² (41.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the township was 86.84% White, 0.10% African American, 1.11% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 9.64% from other races, and 2.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18.32% of the population.
There were 1,388 households out of which 38.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.3% were married couples living together, 10.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.7% were non-families. 20.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.26.
In the township the population was spread out with 30.5% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.8 males.


The median income for a household in the township was $35,078, and the median income for a family was $43,835. Males had a median income of $31,568 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the township was $15,501. About 8.6% of families and 11.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.4% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.

And now, here it is...your moment of Carlin (10/13/2008)


Anything but the Present

America has no now. We're reluctant to acknowledge the present. It's too embarrassing.

Instead, we reach into the past. Our culture is composed of sequels, reruns, remakes, revivals, reissues, rereleases, re-creations, reenactments, adaptations, anniversaries, memorabilia, oldies radio, and nostalgia record collections. World War II has been refought on television so many times, the Germans and Japanese are now drawing residuals.

Of course, being essentially out of shit, we sometiems feel the need to dress up this past preoccupation, as with pathetic references to reruns as "encore presentations".

)85(

the importance of your population shows it because you had to say it twice. <.-
)85( to Robin,
"Keep in eye on Dak, we will find his hidden motives."
Robin-"Wholely Monk-a-thon )85(, we can't figure him out. The running back is on the front line....the quater back isn't even there."
)85(-Yes. We might have tobring in the kings men for this.
Robin-Not the kings men. Anything but that.
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yes i'm that bored. v.v

WackoJako

Wikipedia page for: Portsmouth, Virginia.


As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 100,565 people, 38,170 households, and 25,497 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,170.9/km² (3,032.7/mi²). There were 41,605 housing units at an average density of 484.4/km² (1,254.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 50.61% African American, 45.84% White, 0.48% Native American, 0.77% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.61% from other races, and 1.62% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.74% of the population.

There were 38,170 households out of which 30.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.1% were married couples living together, 10.9% have a female household with no husband present and 33.2% were non-families. 27.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.05.

In the city the population was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.6 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $36,742, and the median income for a family was $39,577. Males had a median income of $30,122 versus $23,375 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,507. About 13.3% of families and 16.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.7% of those under age 18 and 10.7% of those age 65 or over.

I lib in da ghetoooooo.

Gigglypuff

Fine HB

Mine and Half Boy's home town.

Bradford is a large city within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District of West Yorkshire, England.

A historic Yorkshire city, Bradford became a municipal borough of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. The city status was transferred to the metropolitan district when it was formed in 1974.[1] It has a population of 293,717 with the district as a whole having 485,000 inhabitants. By urban sub-area, it is the 11th largest settlement in England.

emmathe37th

You forgot the most important fact.......

Bradford is crap.

CM Diddy

I live in West Warwick, RI which is a suburb about 15 miles outside of Providence. Im too damn lazy to wikipedia anything on it but here are two important facts:

1.) West Warwick is home to The Station Nightclub fire, in where Great White accidentally set fire to club with there pyro display and hundreds of people died while the club burned down to the ground. I was supposed to be there that night, as I had met the band (actually, they approached me and my buddy at the Warwick Mall and inquired where the titty bars were) And they had put 3 of us on the guest list, but our other 3 friends just didnt want to spend $15 on Great WHite tickets (go figure) and we didnt end up going. My old apartment was a 1/4 mile away from the club, and it was easily the most horrifying scene I have ever seen/heard. Hearing that many people scream was pretty fuckin intense.

2.)West Warwick is nothing but Convienence stores, Liquor stores and churches. There are tons of white trash people all over the place, and they do nothing but smoke crack and drink shitty beer, and reside in either two of the villages, Artic, or Phenix. And the majority of the white boys here like to think there living some Gangsta fantasy. Quite annoying.

When did punk rock become so safe?
When did the scene become a joke?
The kids who used to live for beer and speed
now want their fries and coke
Cursing and flipping birds are not allowed,
in fact let's keep noise levels down

Must separate the church and skate!

Captain Planet

WC's Resident Samoan

Did you want hometown as in, where i live now, where i was born, where i went to school... lol

Danny Diamond

Founder/Admin

This is the town I grew up in and lived there till I was 22.

Hingham is a town in Plymouth County on the South Shore of Massachusetts. The population was 29,882 at the 2000 census. Hingham is located 18 miles south of the Boston city limits.

For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Hingham, please see the article Hingham (CDP), Massachusetts.

History

Hingham was first settled as "Bare Cove" by English colonists in 1633, and it was officially incorporated as a town in 1635 under the name "Hingham". The eastern part of the town later became Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1770. The town was named for Hingham, a village in the English county of Norfolk, where a number of the first colonists came from including some of Abraham Lincoln's ancestors [2], including Samuel Lincoln (1622–1690), who came to Massachusetts in 1637. There is a statue of President Lincoln located adjacent to downtown Hingham Square.

Hingham is home to the United States' oldest continuously used wooden house of worship, the Old Ship Church, built in 1681, which currently serves members of the Unitarian Universalist faith. The meetinghouse name comes from the fact that the roof and ceiling rafters resembled the upside-down hull of ship to the early settlers who worshipped there. This is not surprising since many of the architects who helped build the church were shipbuilders. Old Ship Church is the only remaining 17th century meeting house in New England. The town also has many other late eighteenth century and nineteenth century homes still standing. Many of these homes can be found in six historic districts set up to maintain their unique character into the future.

Hingham was originally part of Suffolk County, and when the southern part of the county was set off as Norfolk County in 1793, it included the towns of Hingham and Hull. In 1803 those towns opted out of Norfolk County and became part of Plymouth County.^[1]

In 1889, a wealthy Hingham resident, John Brewer, commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted to design a residential subdivision on a peninsula Brewer owned adjacent to Hingham Harbor. While Law's tree-lined horse-cart paths were made, the residential buildings were never constructed. After World War II, Hingham was unsuccessful in its bid to have Brewer's peninsula used as the site of the planned United Nations Secretariat building. In later years the site was also considered for a nuclear power plant. In the 1960s, to prevent eventual development, townspeople organized an effort to preserve the peninsula as open space. Today this natural conservation land is called World's End and is maintained by The Trustees of Reservations.



Hingham's contribution in the World Wars





From 1903 until 1961, The Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot (Originally called the Hingham Naval Reserve) was a major supplier of U.S munitions, occupying 990 acres on the Weymouth Back River (in the section once known as The Hockley). Most of the munitions used in the European front in World War II were created at the depot. At peak capacity in 1945, over 2,400 civilians and military personnel worked there. In the mid 1950s, the site contained over 90 buildings, its own telephone exchange, and 15 cranes. The base was decommissioned in 1961, though the Navy held on to the property until 1971, when it was turned over to the town of Hingham. Today much of the site is now occupied by the town's Bare Cove Park.

Hingham was also the location of a 97-acre shipyard set up as an adjunct to the Fore River Shipyard in nearby Quincy, operated for some 39 months during the Second World War. The facility employed approximately 23,500 workers and produced some 75 destroyer escorts (DEs), 17 high speed transports (APDs), 95 tank landing ships (LSTs), 40 landing craft (LCIs), for a total of 227 vessels. These smaller, relatively simple ships played a vital role in the U.S. victory, and were built in record time. One DE was launched just 23 days after keel-laying, and in one 50-hour span a total of 5 LSTs were delivered. The steel mill erected on the site (used later as a General Services Administration warehouse) was the largest single-story building in New England, at 1,000 feet. (A twin building was demolished in the 1980s.) After the war, the complex became an industrial park. By the 1970s, the complex had fallen into disuse. It is currently used as a commuter boat terminal and parking area. Most of the buildings have now been demolished to pave the way for a new multi-use marina, condominium, and retail complex that is to be constructed over the next five to ten years.







"The Main Street of America"





During World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt authored a book entitled This is America, which used Hingham as an embodiment of the typical American town in wartime. As part of her visit researching the book she toured Hingham's Main Street, with its stately eighteenth and nineteenth century houses and, at the time, a canopy of elm trees. Mrs. Roosevelt later concluded in the book that "[t]his is the most beautiful Main Street in America." Today Main Street looks much as it did then, though the elm canopy has mostly fallen victim to the ravages of Dutch Elm disease.

In January 2007, the town carried out a long-discussed plan to put up the first set of traffic lights along Main Street, intended to improve safety at the intersection with Free and High Streets. Those street lights ended up being put up on Free and High Streets, making it easier for cars to cross, but causing traffic to back up along Main Street. Since then, there have been no accidents at the intersection. ^[2]


Current development





While strongly rooted in America's colonial past, Hingham has seen a wave of development in the past ten years. Real-estate development pressure in Hingham is likely spurred by several factors: the town's close proximity to Boston; its high-quality public education; its relatively unspoiled historic character, and expanding availability of public transportation to Boston, by MBTA bus, commuter ferry, and commuter rail (beginning in late 2007).

Recent development includes the Conservatory Park residential subdivision and the Black Rock residential subdivision (a gated community, golf course, and private club). Another gated community, Linden Ponds, has been constructed in the southern part of Hingham. A second private golf club and residential community is nearing completion. Both golf clubs were developed on Hingham's western border with neighboring Weymouth, in areas that had previously been woodland or quarry.

Future growth in Hingham includes a large senior-citizen development being constructed in the southern part of town near Derby Street. The zoning board is also reviewing plans for the town's largest development project to date, a complete renovation of the town's former naval shipyard area into a multi-functional residential apartment, condo, and townhouse community, with shops, restaurants, and a proposed cineplex.

Hingham's recent and future projected growth have led its school board to conclude that additional educational resources must be constructed for the town's expanding student population. Proposals currently include a second renovation/expansion of Hingham's middle school, the opening of a fourth elementary school, and a possible additional expansion of the town's high school.

[edit] Geography





According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 64.9 km² (25.0 mi²). 58.2 km² (22.5 mi²) of it is land and 6.7 km² (2.6 mi²) of it (10.26%) is water. Hingham is bordered on the east by Cohasset, and Scituate, on the south by Norwell and Rockland, on the west by Weymouth, and on the north by Boston Harbor, Hingham Bay and Hull. Cohasset and Weymouth are in Norfolk County; the other towns, like Hingham itself, are in Plymouth County. Hingham is fourteen miles southeast of downtown Boston.

Hingham lies along the southwest corner of Boston Harbor, at the portion known as Hingham Bay. The bay leads to a harbor, which cuts a "u"- shaped indentation into the northern shore of the town. The town is separated from Hull by the Weir River and its tributary, which leads to the Straits Pond. The northern third of the town's border with Weymouth is comprised of the Weymouth Back River, which empties out into Hingham Bay. There are several other small ponds and brooks throughout town. The town also has several forests and parks, the largest of which, Wompatuck State Park, spreads into the neighboring towns of Cohasset, Scituate and Norwell. There are also several conservation areas through out town, including the World's End Reservation, which juts out into the bay. There is a marina along the mouth of the Weymouth Back River, and a public beach along the harbor.







Demographics






As of the census² of 2000, there were 19,882 people, 7,189 households, and 5,478 families residing in the town. The population density was 341.6/km² (884.8/mi²). There were 7,368 housing units at an average density of 126.6/km² (327.9/mi²).

The racial makeup of the town was 90.51% White, 6.40% Black or African American, 0.04% Native American, 0.88% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.22% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.75% of the population.

There were 7,189 households out of which 37.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.7% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.8% were non-families. 21.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.19.

In the town the population was spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 89.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $83,018, and the median income for a family was $98,598. Males had a median income of $66,802 versus $41,370 for females. The per capita income for the town was $41,703. About 2.4% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 3.1% of those age 65 or over.







Government





On the national level, Hingham is a part of Massachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by Bill Delahunt. The state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2006, is Ted Kennedy. The junior (Class II) Senator, up for re-election in 2008, is John Kerry.
On the state level, Hingham is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Third Plymouth district, which includes Cohasset, Hull and Scituate. The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Plymouth and Norfolk district, which includes the towns of Cohasset, Duxbury, Hull, Marshfield, Norwell, Scituate and Weymouth.^[3] The town is patrolled on a secondary basis by the First (Norwell) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police.

Hingham is governed on the local level by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by an executive secretary and a board of selectmen. The town hall is located in the former Central Junior High School building, which it moved into in 1995. The town has its own police and fire departments, with a central police station next to the town hall and fire houses located near the town common and in South Hingham. The town's nearest hospital is South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, where all emergency calls are sent. There are two post offices in town, one in downtown Hingham on North Street and another in South Hingham right on Route 53. The town's public library is located on Leavitt Street in Centre Hingham, and is part of the Old Colony Library Network.


Education





Hingham operates its own school system for the town's approximately 3,800 students. There are three elementary schools (Plymouth River, South and William L. Foster) which serve students from kindergarten through fifth grade (the South Elementary School also has pre-kindergarten classes). The Hingham Middle School is located in South Hingham, and serves students from sixth to eighth grades. Prior to 1995, this building was the South Hingham Junior High; however, it merged with Central Junior High to make a single, centralized school. The Central Junior High School building is no longer used for classes and was renovated to house all the town's offices and the police department.

Hingham High School is located near Hingham Center, and serves students from ninth to twelfth grades. The school's teams are known as the Harbormen (and Harborwomen), and their colors are red and white. The teams compete in the Patriot League, and their chief rival is nearby Scituate High, although this varies greatly between sports.

In addition to the town's public schools, Hingham is home to four private schools. Saint Paul's School is a Catholic school, and Derby Academy is an independent private school. Both serve elementary and middle school aged students. The town is also home to Notre Dame Academy, a Roman Catholic women's high school. Hingham is also home to Old Colony Montessori School, a private special education school. Additionally, there are more private schools in Weymouth, Milton, Braintree, and other towns which also serve students from Hingham.


Transportation





A small portion of Route 3 passes through the southwest corner of town, with one exit in town and another at Route 228 just south of the town line. Routes 3A and 53 also cross through the town, the latter mirroring the path of Route 3. Route 228 passes from north to south in town; the rest all pass from west to east.

Public transportation is currently served by the commuter boat service at the Hingham Shipyard, and the MBTA's Bus Route 220, with Route 222 also passing through a small section of town. Commuter rail is being restored along the Greenbush Line through Hingham. Trains will stop at two stations in town; West Hingham and Nantasket Junction, starting in 2007. As part of the MBTA's agreement to restore train service a tunnel is being built which will carry the commuter trains under historic Hingham Square. There were disputes in Hingham about whether to allow the train to pass through the town. Some people felt that Hingham is becoming less like a town and more like a small city. Others felt that the line will benefit the town. There is no air service in the town; the nearest airport is Logan International Airport in Boston.


Notable residents





Hingham's most famous line of citizens are from two unrelated families named Lincoln that came to Massachusetts from England in the seventeenth century — one from Hingham^[5] and the other from Swanton Morley,^[6] both in Norfolk County in England. A bridge in Hingham over Route 3, the Southeast Expressway, is named after Revolutionary War hero General Benjamin Lincoln of the Swanton branch. General Lincoln is most remembered for accepting Cornwallis's sword of surrender at the Battle of Yorktown. The most famous Lincoln descendant however, who did not actually live in Hingham, is United States President and Civil War Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln of the Hingham branch. A bronze statue, a replica of the famous sitting Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. sits at the foot of Lincoln Street at North Street. Native son Isaac Sprague was the best-known American botanical illustrator in the 1800s. John F. Andrew was a United States Congressman in the 19th century.

• Tony Amonte, NHL player
• Bill Belichick, New England Patriots head coach
• Marc Brown, children's author, moved to NY
• Ken Casey, bassist and co-lead vocalist of the Irish punk rock group Dropkick Murphys
• Bob Graham, former Florida senator
• Sean McDonough, TV sportscaster
• Bob Ryan, Boston Globe sports editor
• The Unseen, punk rock group
• Tim Wakefield, Red Sox knuckleballer

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Danny Diamond

Founder/Admin

My wifes first cousin was there and didnt make it out. 22 at the time.

RIP Derek.

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Mikk

WC's Sexy Beast

Where i live now: Sunderland

Sunderland (pronounced: /'sundələnd/, /'sʌndələnd/ or /'sun(d)lən/) is a city in Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly a county borough but now forms part of the City of Sunderland. It sits at the mouth of the Wearside conurbation.
The name "Sunderland" is reputed to come from Soender-land (soender/sunder being the Anglo-Saxon infinitive, meaning "to part"), likely to be reference to the valley carved by the River Wear that runs through the heart of the city. Another meaning is that of the name referring to 'land set aside', derived from the rich Christian heritage of the city.
There were three original settlements on the site of modern-day Sunderland. On the north side of the river, Monkwearmouth was settled in 674 when Benedict Biscop founded the Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery. Opposite the monastery on the south bank, Bishopwearmouth was founded in 930. A small fishing village called Sunderland, located toward the mouth of the river (modern day East End) was granted a charter in 1179. Over the centuries, Sunderland grew as a port, trading coal and salt. Ships began to be built on the river in the 14th century. By the 19th century, the port of Sunderland had grown to absorb Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth. Sunderland became a city in 1992.
A person born in Sunderland is sometimes called a Mackem.



Victoria Hall Disaster

The Victoria Hall was a large concert hall on Toward Road facing onto Mowbray Park. The Hall was the scene of a tragedy on June 16, 1883 when 183 children died. During a variety show, children rushed towards a staircase for treats. At the bottom of the staircase, the door had been opened inward and bolted in such a way as to only leave a gap wide enough for one child to pass at a time. The children surged down the stairs toward the door. Those at the front became trapped, and were crushed by the weight of the crowd behind them.
With the asphyxiation of 183 children between 3 and 13 years old the disaster is the worst of its kind in British history. The memorial, of a grieving mother holding a dead child, is currently located in Mowbray Park with a protective canopy.Newspaper reports at the time triggered a mood of national outrage and the resulting inquiry recommended that public venues be fitted with a minimum number of outward opening emergency exits, which led to the invention of 'push bar' emergency doors. This law still remains in full force to this day. The Victoria Hall remained in use until 1941 when it was destroyed by a German bomb.




Sport

The only professional sporting team in Sunderland is the football team, Sunderland A.F.C., formed in 1879. Currently winners of the Football League Championship, and newly-promoted to the Premier League, they play their home games at the 49,000 seat capacity Stadium of Light and share a bitter and historic rivalry with fellow Tyne and Wear side Newcastle United F.C.. Sunderland also has the north-east's top women's football team, Sunderland A.F.C. Women, who have been financially separated from the men's team since summer 2005. They currently play in the top tier of English women's football - FA Women's Premier League National Division, despite their financial struggles. The City also has two non-league sides, Sunderland Nissan F.C. of the Northern League Division One and Sunderland Ryhope Community Association F.C. of the Northern League Division Two







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Where i was born: Milton Keynes



Milton Keynes [ˌmɪltənˈkiːnz] (often abbreviated MK) is a large town in northern Buckinghamshire, in South East England, about 45 miles (75 km) north-west of London, and roughly halfway between London and Birmingham. Milton Keynes was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967. Its 34 square miles (88 km²) area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between. It took its name from the existing village of Milton Keynes, a few miles east of the planned city centre. Uniquely for the UK, the urban form uses a 1 km grid for the top level of street hierarchy: the local form of most districts is more conventional.
At the 2001 census the population of the Milton Keynes urban area, including the adjacent town of Newport Pagnell, was 184,506, and that of the wider borough of Milton Keynes, which has been a unitary authority independent of Buckinghamshire since 1997, was 207,063 (compared to a population of around 53,000 for the same area in 1961)



Culture

The open air National Bowl is a 65,000 capacity venue for large scale concerts. It is situated off the A5 near Furzton.
The 1,400 seat Milton Keynes Theatre (Blonski-Heard) opened in 1999. Its high booking rate allows it to lay claim to the title "Britain's most popular theatre". The theatre has an unusual feature: the ceiling can be lowered closing off the third tier (gallery) to create a more intimate space for smaller scale productions. There are further performance spaces in Bletchley, Leadenhall, Shenley Church End, Stantonbury and Walton Hall.



The municipal (art) gallery (Milton Keynes Gallery, next to the main theatre) hosts various exhibitions.
In Wavendon, on the southeast edge of the city, The Stables provides a venue for jazz, blues, folk, rock, classical, pop and world music. It is closely associated with jazz artists Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. The venue also hosts an annual summer camp for young musicians.
Another music venue is The Pitz Club in the Woughton Centre, Leadenhall. It usually features a mixture of punk, alternative rock, and heavy metal.
There are two museums, the Bletchley Park museum of wartime cryptography, and the Milton Keynes Museum, which includes the Stacey Hill Collection of rural life that existed before the foundation of the new city.
The city also has a literature scene, with groups like Speakeasy meeting regularly and hosting performance events, and the city's only poetry magazine, Monkey Kettle coming out three times a year.



Sport

Milton Keynes has professional teams in football (Milton Keynes Dons F.C.), ice hockey (Milton Keynes Lightning) and in basketball (Milton Keynes Lions). It is represented at amateur level in many sports, some at national level. For details see Sport in Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes is also home to the Xscape indoor ski slope.
Senior football was a relatively late arrival in Milton Keynes. There had been several non-league teams based in the area over the years, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that it looked as though Milton Keynes would have a senior side. Businessman Pete Winkelman approached several clubs in and near London about a move to Milton Keynes, as it was by now the largest town or city in England to be without a professional club. He got his wish in May 2002 when Wimbledon FC were given permission to relocate to Milton Keynes - 62 miles away from their home borough of Merton. Wimbledon moved into the National Hockey Stadium in September 2003 as a temporary home until a new, larger stadium could be built. A year later, Wimbledon FC became Milton Keynes Dons, and three years after that they moved into a new 22,000-seat stadium in the Denbigh district of south Milton Keynes.