Park amenities
We’re here to support your needs, too. With everything from Amazon lockers, cafés, shops, a pharmacy, nursery to a gym and swimming pool your working week just got a little easier.
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Amazon lockers
Our Amazon lockers, located at the Park Centre next to the pharmacy, make it easy to pick up your amazon.co.uk parcels at a time that is convenient to you.
How do the Amazon lockers work?
Just order your Amazon parcel in the usual way. When you get to the checkout, under Delivery Address, click on ‘Why not Click and Collect?’ and locate the delivery point at ‘5 Park Square, Milton Park’.
Once your parcel is delivered to the Amazon Locker, you'll receive an email with a unique pickup code and the address and opening times for your selected locker location. The code will also be available in the tracking information for your order.
When you arrive to collect your parcel, enter your pickup code or scan the barcode using the barcode scanner and follow the instructions on the screen.
All parcels delivered to Amazon Locker locations must be picked up within three days. If you're not able to pick-up your parcel within this timeframe, the parcel will be returned to Amazon and you will receive a refund.
Apollo Pharmacy
The pharmacy at the Park Centre offers a full range of services, open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm (closing for an hour at 1.15-2.15pm) and Saturday 9am-3pm.
Apollo Pharmacy offers a full range of services, including:
- Dispensing NHS and private prescriptions
- Disposal of unwanted or out-of-date medicines
- Vaccination service
- Advice on treatment of minor conditions and healthy living
- Medicines use reviews (e.g. how to correctly use an inhaler, lifestyle advice, minimising side-effects) which leads to increased medicine compliance and concordance
- Emergency hormonal contraception.
Bike and ebike loan scheme
Our free bike and ebike loan scheme is open to all our customers. Please use the bikes to move around the Park, pop into Didcot or to and from the station.
Milton Park has 18 bikes and six ebikes available to hire, which are housed in bike shelters ‘hubs’ across Milton Park and beyond:
- West - at the Security Post coming onto the Park from the A34 - ///outwards.neckline.liner
- Park Club - opposite the gym - ///tamed.decide.extensive
- Park Centre - next to the Pharmacy - ///mouths.thighs.treating
- Innovation Centre – in front of 99 Park Drive - ///intend.orbited.loopholes
- Central – opposite the Nursery behind building 102 Park Drive - ///opened.cook.sleep
- Park Drive East – along Park Drive, next to building 143 - ///taking.socket.assurance
- 136 Eastern Avenue - at the rear of the building - ///conceals.clerics.fuse
- Opposite 68-71 Innovation Drive - ///distracts.employer.shining
- Didcot Parkway station – in the cycle racks next to station - ///pocketed.blurred.sunflower
To hire a bike, you need to download the Donkey Republic app and follow the instructions. Make sure you register using your Milton Park work email address as the system will recognise that and not charge you for rental (the first 48 hours of use are free).
Bright Horizons Day Nursery
Open Monday to Friday 7.30am to 6pm.
Solve your childcare conundrums thanks to Bright Horizons, the on-site day nursery for use by parents on and off the Park.
Having a nursery here makes it easy and convenient for you to manage nursery runs and pick up your children after your working day. Bright Horizons has been rated as Good in its recent Ofsted report.
Bus to Milton Park
A bus to and from Didcot Parkway offers a frequent, low-cost service between 6am-11.30pm.
People working at Milton Park can buy a subsidised annual £20 bus pass and benefit from unlimited bus travel within Didcot.
Milton Park also has frequent bus services which are being extended with buses every 30 minutes from Oxford and Headington’s Life Sciences District and Wantage, and a faster route from Wantage and Grove.
Cash machine – free ATM
Cardpoint have informed us that they will be removing the cash point in July 2023.
The nearest cashpoint is at the BP garage at the A34 Interchange What3words:///chapels.extensive.strategy (which can be accessed on foot through the Backhill Tunnel) or cashback can be obtained from the Post Office at Park House, 11 High Street, Milton Park. What3words:///globe.ship.wasps
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Courtyard by Marriott Hotel
Courtyard by Marriott® Oxford South is a 4 star hotel based at Milton Gate, the entrance to Milton Park.
Ideally located, just a five-minute walk from Milton Park, Courtyard by Marriott® Oxford South is a high quality hotel with complimentary car parking and a 24hr fitness suite. Guest rooms are spacious, complete with free Wi-Fi, 55” HDTV, plush bedding and workspace.
The Oxen Restaurant is our signature restaurant with open kitchen and urban lounge bar.
Electric car charging
Do you have an electric car or are thinking of buying one? If so, there's no need to worry about running out of power when you're at the Park.
Here are the locations of EV charging points at Milton Park:
- ///something.feelers.lied - Innovation Centre
- ///Airbase.dive.costly - Innovation Drive
- ///Archduke.retrieves.overhead - 141 Park Drive
- ///Sailors.blast.beanbag - 142 Park Drive
- ///Rival.makeovers.cupcake - overflow car park
- ///Ruffle.lyricist.payback - Marriott Hotel car park
- ///Startles.blanking.blog - by post office
Flex Physio Practice
Based at Milton Park's Park Club, Flex Physiotherapy Practice is a private physiotherapy provider, focusing on rehabilitation and recovery and providing answers to people with pain or injury.
Services include:
- Physiotherapy
- Tendon clinic
- Post op rehab
- Hydrotherapy
- Sports injuries
- Adolescent injuries
- Running physio
- Joint conditions
Horsebox Coffee
Horsebox Coffee Company is based outside the Security Hut Monday to Thursday from 7am - 2pm.
Now selling Pierreponts baguettes from 11am.
Two delicious deals, for £4.95 enjoy either...
- any hot drink and a pastry (subject to availability)
- or any TWO hot drinks – so why not treat a colleague
Deux Chevaux Espresso is the Horsebox’s little sister, serving delicious just roasted specialty coffee from our Dark Horse Roastery near Wallingford. We ethically source sustainable green coffee from around the world and roast in small batches to reveal each coffees’ unique flavour. We also serve Mortimers hot chocolate, Henny & Joes Chai and Joe’s loose leaf teas. All use organic milk or offer a plant based alternative, all served in compostable cups or why not bring down your favourite mug for even more sustainable treat.
Find us by the security hut ….
Hive Café
Open to occupiers and the general public alike, the Bee House is Milton Park's largest café. Opening hours: Monday - Friday 8.30am - 4pm (excluding Bank Holidays).
Managed by Pierreponts, the Hive Café is a popular choice by those working at Milton Park or live locally.
Serving breakfast and lunch options, a wide variety of sandwiches, baguettes, salads, cakes, snacks, hot drinks and hot food, including cooked breakfasts. The café offers a catering service for meetings.
Free WiFi and charging points available. Visitors can also park in the visitors’ spaces on the top deck of the Bee House car park. If you've got an electric car, why not can use the EV charging facilities/ fast charger while you use the facilities?
For meeting room enquiries, please contact Reception at the Bee House.
Meeting and conference rooms
Are your own meeting rooms constantly in use, do you need somewhere private for an interview or perhaps you're needing space to host a one-off seminar or event? Our meeting rooms are available for the whole community's use.
Located in the Innovation Centre and the Bee House, the facilities can be hired for meetings, training sessions, events, interviews, seminars and exhibitions, and can accommodate from one person up to 145 people.
Our friendly teams will arrange everything for you from refreshments to seating layout.
Milton Feast
Milton Feast Street Food visits the Park every Tuesday and Thursday from 11am – 2pm.
Milton Feast is a diverse collection of popular local food vendors with foods from around the world, from wood-fired pizzas or and Mission style burritos to Filipino fusion food and vegan falafels. There’s something for everyone.
Regular vendors include:
MOT centre
M&M Commercials' full workshop facilities are up and running, open Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 5pm and Saturday 7.30am to 12pm.
M&M Commercials is a high quality, long established commercial vehicle specialist offering a range of services:
- Motor repairs & servicing
- Commercial vehicle repairs and servicing
- MOT testing cars - Class 4 and commercial vehicles – Class 7
- Motor home MOT testing
- Air Conditioning service and repair
- Courtesy van available by arrangement
- Competitive prices.
Munchies of Grove
Munchies of Grove visits the Park every weekday, stopping outside 178 Brook Drive at 10.30am, 142 Park Drive at 11.20am, 143 Park Drive at 11.40am, 174 Brook Drive at 12 noon and finally 180 Park Drive at 1.15pm. Munchies are open to everyone on the Park and the timings are subject to traffic.
- Hot baguettes and cold sandwiches (various fillings)
- Burgers (cheese, bacon, egg or Munchies Special)
- Breakfast box (sausage, bacon, egg, baked beans and hash brown)
- Pastries (sausage rolls, pasties, cheese & bacon turnover, chicken & mushroom slice, vegetable pie)
- Hot dog with onions
- Hot meals (subject to change - mac 'n' cheese, cottage pie, chilli & rice, chicken curry & rice, sausage, mash & peas)
- Cold drinks, crisps, chocolate, cakes and sweets
- Jacket potatoes, salads and cold baguettes can also be pre-ordered in advance by calling Rob on the numbers above, either the day before or by 8.30am on the day.
Park Club gym and swimming pool
With a gym on-site, why not exercise straight before you start or after you finish work, or during your lunchbreak? Opening hours Monday to Thursday 6.15am-10pm, Friday 6.15am-9pm, Saturday 8am-4pm, Sunday 9am - 4pm, and bank holidays 8am-6pm.
The Park Club Milton offers a wide variety of training facilities including gym halls, classes, a swimming pool, sauna, and steam room.
The fully-equipped gym areas have many resistance machines, free weight, and cardio machines including treadmills, cross trainers, bikes and stair masters to cater for any training style you enjoy.
You can also upgrade your membership to The Athlete Centre where you can participate in their CrossFit style classes and use the space to practise weightlifting if that’s your thing! All members are offered an induction to learn how to use the equipment, a programme to provide your workouts with structure and a body composition analysis to help measure your progress.
The swimming pool at The Park Club is 20m long & split into four lanes and there is a sauna and steam room available. They also offer group swimming lessons for children and adults to help teach correct swimming techniques and become water confident. If you are a member and wish to bring your children in to swim with you outside of lessons, you can do so during ‘Family Swim’ which takes place every Friday-Sunday. Just get in touch if you wish to find out more.
The Park Club also has many other facilities including Physiotherapy, Sports Massage Therapists, Personal Trainers and a Nail Technician.
Pierreponts Café/ business lounge
The business lounge is available for everyone at Milton Park. Pierreponts Café is open for takeaways, sitting inside or outside. Opening hours: Monday - Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm (excluding Bank Holidays)
Managed by Pierreponts, the business lounge at the Innovation Centre is a popular place of informal meetings and catch ups with peers on the Park.
Serving a wide variety of sandwiches, baguettes, salads, cakes, snacks and hot drinks – the café has everything you need for breakfast & lunch and they also offer a catering service for meetings.
Free WiFi and charging points are available. Visitors can also park in the visitors’ spaces outside the front of the Innovation Centre.
For business lounge enquiries, please contact Reception at the Innovation Centre.
Post Office
The on-site Post Office offers all the usual services, including a handy photo booth for your ID and passport needs and sells a selection of stationery and cards. Currently open Monday to Friday 8am to 5:15pm
Security
To keep people safe and secure, the security team provides 24-7 security with regular patrols.
Urban gardens
As part of our commitment to sustainability, we are proud to have our urban gardens meaning occupiers can grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and other plants while they're at work. Each bed is sponsored by a company who decide what they would like to grow. Many of the companies have set up garden clubs for their employees and it is a great way for people to get some fresh air, meet others on the Park and share gardening tips, improving overall wellbeing and work-life balance.
We run an annual Urban Garden Awards to create some healthy competition amongst those with a plot, awarding prizes for:
- Biodiversity award
- Most unusual food item
- Largest food item
- Most inventive garden
- Best use of colour
- Most overgrown.
Be part of a community
We’re more than a business, science and technology park; we’re a welcoming, vibrant community where companies and individuals can thrive. There’s plenty of opportunities for collaboration to promote success and growth.
