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| Borough of Charnwood | |
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Shown within Leicestershire | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Borough |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Admin. County: | Leicestershire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 164th 279.06 kmē |
| Admin. HQ: | Loughborough |
| ONS code: | 31UC |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( 2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 102nd 153,383 550 / kmē |
| Ethnicity: | 91.7% White 6.0% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Charnwood Borough Council http://www.charnwoodbc.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Labour + Liberal DemocratsThe Liberal Democrats ("Lib Dems") are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an allian |
| 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: | Stephen DorrellThe Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell (born March 25 1952) is an English politician and Tory member of Parliament for Charnwood. He is a member of the Privy Council, and a patron of the Tory Reform Group. He became MP for Loughborough in 1979, and became a, Andy ReedAndrew John Reed (born 17 September 1964) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party member of Parliament for Loughborough in Leicestershire, and was first elected in 1997. Reed resigned from HM Government before the 2003 US-led invasion of |
Charnwood is a local government districtThe Districts of England are the lowest level of local government in England except for civil parishes. England is first divided into governmental regions, then administrative counties. Counties are then subdivided into districts. Status Most districts ca with boroughA borough is a political division originally used in England. The equivalent, burgh was used in Scotland. Bury often ends towns' names in the South of England, but borough more often in the Midlands. Bury is more common in America's New England but burg status in northern Leicestershire, 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. It is named for Charnwood Forest, which it contains. The main town is Loughborough.
It was formed in 1974 as a merger of the borough of Loughborough, the Shepshed urban district and the Barrow-on-Soar Rural District .
To the south it borders Leicester, about 20km away from Loughborough. There is a moderately urbanised ' A6' corridor between the towns and close to the River Soar, including Quorn, Barrow-on-Soar , Mountsorrel , Birstall , Thurnby , Syston and East Goscote. Other places in the district include Shepshed.
Charnwood is represented in Parliament by the Conservative Stephen Dorrell, the former National Heritage Secretary ( 1994 - 1995) and Health Secretary (1995 - 1997) during John Major's Government.