| Borough of Swale | |
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Shown within Kent |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Borough |
| Region: | South East England |
| Admin. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one South East England is one of the nine official Regions of England. County: | Kent |
| Area: - Total |
Ranked 126th 373.40 km² |
| Admin. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format Surface area is the measure of how much exposed Area an object has This is a list of Districts of England ordered by area. The areas given are calculated from the Output Areas created for Census 2001 and made available To help compare different Orders of magnitude and geographical regions we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km² Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of HQ: | Sittingbourne |
| ONS code: | 29UM |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2006 est. Sittingbourne is an industrial town about eight miles (129 km east of Gillingham, beside the Roman Watling Street off a creek in The Swale The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating Census and other statistical data In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology ) - Density |
Ranked 150th 128,500 344 / km² |
| Ethnicity[1]: | 96. The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different The figures are mid-year estimates for 2007 from the Office for National Statistics. 1% White 1. 3% S. Asian 1. 1% Black 1. 0% Mixed Race |
| Politics | |
Swale Borough Council http://www.swale.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MPs: | Hugh Robertson(C), Derek Wyatt(Lab) |
Swale is a local government district in Kent, England. The pattern of local government in England is complex with the distribution of functions varying according to the local arrangements The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Composition Graphical representation of the House of Commons This is a comparison of the party strengths in the British House of Commons Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially ' shire districts', are a type of local government district in England. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Its council is based in Sittingbourne. Sittingbourne is an industrial town about eight miles (129 km east of Gillingham, beside the Roman Watling Street off a creek in The Swale The borough is named after the narrow channel called The Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey, and which occupies the central part of the district. The name The Swale refers to the strip of sea separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey. This article is about the Isle of Sheppey in northern Kent not to be confused with Shepway in south-eastern Kent
The Roman Watling Street passed through the area, as witness the straightness of the A2 main road, now by-passed by the M2 motorway. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial Watling Street is the name given to an Ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern The M2 is a Motorway in Kent, England. It is 257 Miles (414 Km) long and acts as a bypass of the section of the A2 Apart from northern coast of the Isle of Sheppey, and the immediate areas around the towns, it is a mainly rural borough.
The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, from the boroughs of Faversham and Queenborough-in-Sheppey (which covered all of Sheppey), the Sittingbourne and Milton urban district and Swale Rural District. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c 70 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in England and Wales Faversham (fævɜʃəm is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury Queenborough-in-Sheppey was a Municipal borough in Kent, England from 1968 to 1974 Sittingbourne and Milton was an Urban district in Kent, England, consisting of the settlements of Sittingbourne and Milton Regis In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of Local government district that covered an Urbanised area
Swale railway station is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge. Swale railway station is in north Kent, England. The station is on the Sheerness Line north of Sittingbourne at the southern end of the The Kingsferry Bridge was designed by Mott Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol.
There are four towns in the borough: Sittingbourne and Faversham on the mainland; Sheerness, Queenborough on the Isle. Faversham (fævɜʃəm is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury Sheerness (ˈʃɪərnɪs is a town located beside the mouth of the River Medway on the northwest corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England. In addition local government is carried out by the following parish councils: