page_title: Concrete Cows
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Concrete Cows / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: The restored original cows, now back home at MK Museum, June 2017.
context_page_description: The Concrete Cows in Milton Keynes, England are an iconic work of sculpture, created in 1978 by the American artist Liz Leyh. There are three cows and three calves, approximately half life size.
  The Cows are constructed from scrap, skinned with fibre glass reinforced concrete donated by a local builder.
context_section_description: The Cows were made at Stacey Hill Farm, now the site of the Milton Keynes Museum. and originally located at a parkland site in Bancroft. They have subsequently resided at the National Hockey Stadium
  and INTU Milton Keynes, beside the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre. In spring 2016 they were moved to MK Museum –  which is where they originally started out as a temporary exhibit. This herd of five cattle –  two cows, two calves and a bullock –  have recently been repaired and renovated by MK Parks Trust and MK Museum volunteers, and are now in excellent condition as they approach their 40th birthday. 
  However the replicas (made by Bill Billings) in Bancroft are perhaps better known and are sited next to the A422 (Monks Way) between V5 Great Monks St. and V6 Grafton St.) where it passes under the West Coast Main Line, near its junction with the A5. Direct access on foot or by bike is possible by redway. The nearest rail stations for Bancroft or the MK Museum are Milton Keynes Central and Wolverton. Buses for Bancroft include MK Metro buses 5 and 6 between Bletchley, Central Milton Keynes and Wolverton which call at near-by bus stops on each side of Monks Way near the junction with H3's northern carriageway and Octavian Drive. If approaching on foot or by bike from these stops, a stream separates the cows from the eastern (Octavian Rd) side of H3. There is a bridge over the stream next to the southern carriageway of H3, and an underpass links this bridge to the cows' field.
caption: The restored original cows, now back home at MK Museum, June 2017
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