Welwyn Hatfield
From Free net encyclopedia
- For the constituency, see Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency)
| Welwyn Hatfield district | |
|---|---|
| Image:HertfordshireWelwynHatfield.png Shown within Hertfordshire | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Borough (pending) |
| Region: | East of England |
| Admin. County: | Hertfordshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 223rd 129.55 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Welwyn Garden City |
| ONS code: | 26UL |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2004 est.) - Density | Ranked 225th 98,500 760 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 93.7% White 2.3% South Asian 1.4% Afro-Caribbean |
| Politics | |
| Image:Arms-welwyn-hatfield.jpg Welwyn Hatfield Council http://welhat.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MP: | Grant Shapps |
Welwyn Hatfield is a local government district in southern Hertfordshire, England.
Its covers the two towns of Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield. Each of these towns has a railway station on the East Coast Main Line and they are close to the A1 road.
The district was formed on April 1, 1974, as a merger of the Welwyn Garden City urban district, with the Hatfield and Welwyn rural districts. <ref>HMSO. S.I. 1972/2039</ref> It petitioned for borough status in 2005, which was agreed to by the Privy Council on November 15 2005. <ref>Minutes of the Privy Council meeting on November 15, 2005.</ref>
Set within the London green belt, the towns retain something of their own identities although they clearly function, increasingly, as dormitory towns for householders who work in London. The Welwyn viaduct carries the railway mentioned above and is a locally important landmark that simultaneously represents a bottleneck restraining capacity over this strategic transport route. Several ideas to overcome this limitation without damaging its essential historic character and rhythmic design are periodically discussed.
References
<references />
Template:Hertfordshire-geo-stub
| Districts of the East of England | Image:Flag of England.svg |
|
Babergh | Basildon | Bedford | Braintree | Breckland | Brentwood | Broadland | Broxbourne | Cambridge | Castle Point | Chelmsford | Colchester | Dacorum | East Cambridgeshire | East Hertfordshire | Epping Forest | Fenland | Forest Heath | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Hertsmere | Huntingdonshire | Ipswich | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | Luton | Maldon | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Suffolk | North Hertfordshire | North Norfolk | Norwich | Peterborough | Rochford | St Albans | St Edmundsbury | South Bedfordshire | South Cambridgeshire | Southend-on-Sea | South Norfolk | Stevenage | Suffolk Coastal | Tendring | Three Rivers | Thurrock | Uttlesford | Watford | Waveney | Welwyn Hatfield | |
|
Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk |
