Milton Park is a 250-acre (1.0 km2) mixed use business park operated by MEPC plc. It is just south of the village of Milton, Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Didcot. It is on the site of a former Ministry of Defence depot between the A34 and Didcot Power Station. Although closer to Didcot, it lies within the Abingdon postcode area.
The park is home to over 160 companies, employing in excess of 6,500 workers. It includes the head offices of Alamy, RM Education, Kaspersky Lab UK and Neftex, and distribution depots for DHL and UPS. Milton Park has 3,400,000 sq ft (320,000 m2) business accommodation, and houses the Milton Park Innovation Centre, a flagship innovation centre for fast growing science and technology businesses.
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