Occupying 342 hectares (850 acres),[4] 

the district lies between Portway (H5, A509) to the north,

the West Coast Main Line and A5 to the west, Childs Way (H6) to the south and the Grand Union
Canal to the east. It is crossed from north to south by (in west to east order, major roads
only) Grafton Gate (V6), Witan Gate, Saxon Gate (V7) and Secklow Gate, and Marlborough Street. It
is crossed from west to east (in north to south order, major roads only) by Silbury Boulevard,
Midsummer Boulevard and Avebury Boulevard. Midsummer Boulevard is the primary spine.
The district rests like a saddle across a long north-south ridge with its highest point here at a little
over 110 metres (360 ft), falling east to 75 metres near the Grand Union Canal and 85 metres near
the Central railway station.[2] This area is almost[b] the highest point of Milton Keynes and includes the
site of Secklow Mound,[5] the moot mound (meeting place) for the Secklow Hundred and a scheduled
ancient monument,[6] just behind the central library.