Olney is a market town and also civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes in South East England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of around 6,500 people. It pushes the River Great Ouse, very near the borders of Buckinghamshire with Bedfordshire as well as Northamptonshire, and equidistant from Northampton, Bedford and Milton Keynes. It is accessed by the M1 at Junction 14 (approximately seven miles), with the closest traveler rail solution at Milton Keynes Central as well as Bedford train stations (each approximately twelve miles distant). It is a prominent visitor destination, possibly best known for the Olney Pancake Race and also for the Olney Hymns by William Cowper as well as John Newton.