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Rutland
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:''This article is about the county in England. For other articles on subjects named Rutland, see
Rutland (disambiguation).''
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!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Rutland
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Image:EnglandRutland.png
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography
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|width="45%"|Status:||
Unitary authority UnitaryCeremonial counties of England Ceremonial county
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|width="45%"|Origin:||
Traditional counties of England Historic
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|Region:||
East Midlands
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Surface area Area:
- Total
- District||
List of Ceremonial counties of England by Area Ranked 45th1 E8 m² 382 square kilometre km²List of English districts by area Ranked 118th
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|Admin HQ:||
Oakham
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ISO 3166-2:GB ISO 3166-2:||GB-RUT
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ONS coding system ONS code:||00FP
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Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics NUTS 3:||UKF22
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics
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Population- Total (
2004 est.)
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Density- District
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List of ceremonial counties of England by population Ranked 47th36,500
93 / km²
List of English districts by population Ranked 348th
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|Ethnicity:||98.1% White
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics
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Image:Arms-rutland.jpg 200px|Rutland County Council
http://www.rutland.gov.uk/
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|Executive:||
Conservative Party (UK) Conservative
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MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 MP:||
Alan Duncan
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'''Rutland''' is traditionally
England's smallest
traditional county county and is bounded on the west and north by
Leicestershire, northeast by
Lincolnshire, and southeast by
Northamptonshire.
Its greatest length north to south is only 18 miles; greatest breadth east to west, 17 miles. It is the smallest (in terms of population) normal unitary authority in mainland
England (only the
City of London is smaller), and is 348th of the 354 districts in terms of population.
The two principal towns are
Oakham, the county town, and
Uppingham. At the centre of the county is a large reservoir,
Rutland Water, which is an important nature reserve, serving as an overwintering site for
wildfowl and a breeding site for
Ospreys. The town of
Stamford, England Stamford is just over the border in a protruding part of
Lincolnshire.
The highest point of the county is
Cold Overton Park at 646 ft. (197 m).
The county's small size led ex-
Monty Python man,
Eric Idle to name his "solo" series ''
Rutland Weekend Television''. The most successful spinoff of this is ''
The Rutles'' which mentions Rutland frequently as an injoke.
History
''Main article:
History of Rutland.''
The north-western part of the county was recorded as Rutland, a detached part of
Nottinghamshire, in the
Domesday Book; the south-eastern part as the
wapentake of ''Wicelsea'' in
Northamptonshire. It was first mentioned as a separate county in
1159, but as late as the
14th century it was referred to as the '
Soke of Rutland'. Historically it was also known as Rutlandshire, but in recent times only the shorter name is common.
By the
19th century it was divided into the
hundred (division) hundreds of
Alstoe,
East Rutland East,
Martinsley,
Oakham (hundred) Oakham and
Wrandike. In
1894 it was divided into three
rural districts,
Oakham Rural District,
Uppingham Rural District and
Ketton Rural District.
Oakham was split out from Oakham Rural District in
1911 as an
urban district. [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10106620]
The four district councils were abolished, and the
administrative county was made a
non-metropolitan district of Leicestershire in the
Local Government Act 1972 local government reorganisation of
1974. It was restored to top-level authority status by popular demand on
1 April,
1997, as part of the
1990s UK local government reform local government reform. There are 26 county councillors representing 16 wards.
Towns and villages
''See the
list of places in Rutland.
and
List of civil parishes in Rutland
'''Places of interest'''
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Barnsdale Gardens
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Lyddington Bede House
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Rutland Railway Museum
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Rutland Water
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Tolethorpe Hall
'''Rivers'''
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River Chater,
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River Eye, England River Eye,
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River Gwash
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River Welland
Trivia
Following
Iraq's invasion and annexation of
Kuwait in
August 1990, ''
The Independent'' featured a cartoon with the sign 'Rutland: Twinned with Kuwait'.
External links
-
Rutland Community Website
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Rutland County Council
See also
*
Rutland Weekend Television
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