With your back to the railway station, aim slightly left, line up with a row of flagpoles and make for two underpasses. Keep ahead along Midsummer Boulevard, passing the sculpture on the left. Make for the next subway and cross Witan Gate and Upper 5th Street. Go under a third subway, and swing left just before the fourth subway to visit the domed Church of Christ the Cornerstone. Keep the church on your left and continue to Silbury Boulevard. Ignore the subway to the right and pass under the one straight ahead.

Turn right through a subway and pass Milton Keynes Library. Pass North 9th Street and you will see a pair of letter boxes which were painted gold in 2012, to celebrate the long jump Olympic gold medal of local resident Greg Rutherford. A little further on pass a statue of the Lloyds Bank black horse icon. Swing right and pass under the road to approach the shopping centre at Deer Walk. Don’t enter the complex here, but instead turn left and walk along to the next entrance, at Eagle Walk. Go straight through, and emerge at Midsummer Boulevard. Turn left to Field Walk, and turn right here to cross the boulevard. Bear left to reach Milton Keynes Theatre, and adjacent, the MK Gallery, the city’s modern art collection. Continue ahead under the subway and cross the footbridge into Campbell Park.

Skirt the round pond and make for the 20-ft (6-m) high 'Light Pyramid' by American artist Liliane Lijn,installed in 2012 on the point known as the Belvedere, with panoramic views over Bedfordshire. Follow the path left down the hill. On the right is the city’s open-air theatre. At the circular tree seat continue straight on, signposted 'Cricket Pavilion', and turn left at the totem pole. Continue down the hill, with the cricket pitch and pavilion to your right, and at the next circular tree seat turn left to follow the Art Trail signpost, back towards the city centre. Running parallel to the path are a series of pretty gardens with park benches, which you can divert into and out of at will. Just before you get back to the round pond is the Labyrinth. Retrace your steps back across the bridge, along Midsummer Boulevard, as far as Midsummer Place.

Midsummer Place is the city’s premier shopping centre with some 50 retailers and an attractive open-air 'square', beneath which stand the original Concrete Cows, created in 1978 (replicas stand elsewhere in the area). Leave the shopping centre and turn left onto Saxon Gate. Walk along to Avebury Boulevard, glancing left to see Xscape. Turn right to follow the boulevard. Just after crossing Grafton Gate, veer right onto Elder Gate, then left to return to the station.