Milton Park is a 250 acres (1 km²) mixed use business park

Business park

A business park or office park is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. All of the work that goes on is commercial, not industrial or residential....

 operated by MEPC plc

MEPC plc

MEPC plc is a leading British-based property investment and development business. It is headquartered in London. It used to be listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index...

. It is just south of the village of Milton, Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Didcot

Didcot

Didcot is a town and civil parish in Oxfordshire about south of Oxford. Until 1974 it was in Berkshire, but was transferred to Oxfordshire in that year, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire...

. It is on the site of a former Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces....

 depot between the A34 and Didcot Power Station

Didcot Power Station

Didcot Power Station refers to a combined coal and oil power plant and a natural-gas power plant that supply the National Grid. They are situated immediately adjoining one another in the civil parish of Sutton Courtenay, next to the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire , in the UK...

. Although closer to Didcot, it lies within the Abingdon

Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Abingdon or archaically Abingdon-on-Thames is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Vale of White Horse district. Previously the county town of Berkshire, Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town, with...

 postcode area.

The park is home to over 160 companies, employing in excess of 6,500 workers. It includes the head offices of Alamy

Alamy

Alamy is a privately owned stock photography agency launched in 1999. Its headquarters are at Milton Park, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. It has a development and operations centre at Techno park in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and sales offices in Brooklyn, New York...

, RM plc

RM plc

RM plc is a British company specialising in providing products and services to schools, colleges, universities and government education departments & agencies...

, Kaspersky Labs UK and Neftex, and distribution depots for DHL

DHL

DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail....

and UPS. Milton Park has 3400000 sq ft (315,870.3 m²) business accommodation, and houses the Milton Park Innovation Centre, a flagship innovation centre for fast growing science and technology businesses.