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!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Shepway District
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Image:KentShepway.png 150px|Shepway''Shown within
Kent''
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography
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|width="45%"|Status:||District
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Regions of England Region:||
South East England
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|Admin. County:||
Kent
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Surface area Area:
- Total||
List of English districts by area Ranked 134th1 E8 m² 356.70 square kilometre km²
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|Admin. HQ:||
Folkestone
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ONS coding system ONS code:||29UL
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics
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Population:
- Total (
2004 est.)
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Density.html">List of English districts by population
Ranked 221st99,000
278 / km²
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|Ethnicity:||97.3% White
1.5% S.Asian
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics
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|colspan=2 align=center|Shepway District Council
http://www.shepway.gov.uk/
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Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors Leadership:||Leader & Cabinet
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|Executive:||
Conservative / People First
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MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 MP:||
Michael Howard
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'''Shepway''' is a
Non-metropolitan district local government district in
Kent,
England. It 'subtitles' itself as
Folkestone,
Hythe and
Romney Marsh. It has council offices in
Folkestone; and there are town councils in
Hythe,
New Romney and
Lydd, with a
parish council at
Sandgate, Kent Sandgate.
The district is divided into
ward (politics) wards. Those wards - listing from north to south of the district - are
Elham and
Stelling Minnis;
North Downs West and East (2 wards); Tolsford*;
Folkestone;
Lympne and
Stanford, Kent Stanford;
Hythe;
Dymchurch and
St Mary's Bay St Mary's;
New Romney Town and Coast (2 wards); and
Lydd.
Romney Marsh ward is the entire inland portion of the district.
*Tolsford is an area of small villages below the North Downs and west of Folkestone. It is named after Tolsford Hill.
The
motorway M20 motorway M20 and the
Channel Tunnel Rail Link both cross the district: at
Cheriton, Kent Cheriton is the western end of the Tunnel.
The district was formed on
April 1,
1974 as a merger of the boroughs of Folkestone, Hythe, Lydd and New Romney, along with
Elham Rural District and
Romney Marsh Rural District.
External links
-
District Council website
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Community website for Shepway
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