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| Aylesbury Vale District | |
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Shown within Buckinghamshire | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | South East England |
| Admin. County: | Buckinghamshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 36th 902.75 kmē |
| Admin. HQ: | Aylesbury |
| ONS code: | 11UB |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 89th 166,659 185 / kmē |
| Ethnicity: | 94.1% White 3.1% S.Asian 1.0% Afro-Carib. |
| Politics | |
Aylesbury Vale District Council http://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | David LidingtonDavid Roy Lidington ( 30 June 1956) is a Conservative Party poltitician in the United Kingdom, and has been member of Parliament for Aylesbury since 1992. He had previously been a special advisor to Douglas Hurd. He is currently Shadow Secretary of State, John BercowJohn Simon Bercow (born January 19, 1963), son of a mini-cab driver from the East End of London, is a politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Buckingham. He had a promising career, but resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensi |
The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of flat land largely to be found in Buckinghamshire, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England. Its boundary is marked by Milton KeynesMilton Keynes is a large town in England, in the borough of Milton Keynes. It is one of the " new towns" built during the 1960s to allow for urban expansion in the southeast of England. The town has a population of around 250,000. It was traditionally a p to the north, Leighton BuzzardLeighton Buzzard is a town in the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire, and is between Luton and Milton Keynes. It has a population of about 30,000. It is known for the Leighton Buzzard Railway, a narrow gauge heritage railway. For local government purposes, th and the Chiltern HillsThe Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment that stretches in a south-west to north-east diagonal across several counties of southern England, but is most prominent in Buckinghamshire. The ridge overlooks the Vale of Aylesbury, and approximately coincides w to the east and south, Thame to the south and Bicester to the west.
The vale is named after Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, which stands at its centre. Two other towns lie within the vale and they are Winslow and Buckingham.
The bed of the vale is largely made up of clay, that was formed at the end of the ice age. Also at this time the vast underground reserves of water that make the water table higher than average in the Vale of Aylesbury were created.
Today the area is known as a local government district in north Buckinghamshire, administered by Aylesbury Vale District Council. This district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the boroughs of Aylesbury and Buckingham, Aylesbury Rural District , Buckingham Rural District , Wing Rural District and part of Winslow Rural District .
In the 2001 UK census the population of Aylesbury Vale was 165,748, representing an increase since 1991 of 18,600 people[1]. Most of those live in the county town Aylesbury.