marked by the middle of the M1 (with side-by-side, parallel, local road the A422), to the start of village centre which is at between 84m (at the station) and 124m at the Common Farm and Golf course in the southwest, just below which to two sides is most of the village. Streets are steepest between the station developed area and the historic upland area. A spring rises on this slope, east of Church Street, the single road scaling the slope. Localities The parish is today relatively small compared to others and has kept to a main north–south development, with buffer zones and recreational areas to either side – see linear development. Aspley Guise Triangle The 'Aspley Guise triangle' is its northern area of farmland bounded by the A421 to the north and north-east and the Marston Vale line to the south (which separates it from the developed and recreational areas of Aspley Guise) and Cranfield Road to the west. It had been named with this term in the regional body's Expansion plans for Milton Keynes and identified as an appropriate possibility, being served by a railway station. In the ministerial ruling on the plan, this area was excluded on the technicality that it is not part of the South East of England Region, though with a hint that it might appear again in an East of England regional spatial strategy, which had its own fulfilled plans. Following the 2010 United Kingdom general election, the coalition government cancelled its predecessor's regional housing targets and bodies. The Local Authority (Central Bedfordshire Council) has since put forward a Local Plan that identifies this area of land for development of 3,000 homes plus facilities. Transport Road Aspley Guise is bisected by Bedford Road, which heads eastwards towards Junction 13 of the M1, and westwards towards Newport Road, which heads southwards towards Woburn, and northwards towards Woburn Sands and the wider Milton Keynes urban area. Rail Aspley Guise railway station is on the Marston Vale line between and and has trains hourly Monday-Saturday. It is three calling points east of Bletchley for interchange with local services on the West Coast Main Line. Notes and references Notes References External links Aspley Guise pages at the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service Villages in Bedfordshire Civil parishes in Bedfordshire Central Bedfordshire District