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Wycombe District

Shown within non-metropolitan Buckinghamshire
Geography
Status: District
Admin. County: Buckinghamshire
Region: South East England
Area:
- Total
Ranked 151st
324.57 km²
Admin. HQ: High Wycombe
ONS code: 11UF
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2007 est.)
- Density
Ranked 100th
161,400
497 / km²
Ethnicity[1]: 86.8% White
7.9% S.Asian
2.6% Black British
1.8% Mixed Race.
Politics
Wycombe District Council
http://www.wycombe.gov.uk/
Leadership: Leader & Cabinet
Executive: Conservative
MPs: Paul Goodman, Dominic Grieve, David Lidington
For the parliamentary constituency named Wycombe, see Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency).

Wycombe is a local government district in Buckinghamshire in south central England. It is administered by Wycombe District Council in the town of High Wycombe. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a merger of the borough of High Wycombe, the urban district of Marlow and Wycombe Rural District.

Contents

Constituent parts

The Wycombe District Council area comprises:

Towns

Civil parishes

There are 28 civil parishes including 2 where a Parish Meeting is held in lieu of a Parish Council: see list of civil parishes in Wycombe

Sports club

Home to Wycombe Wanderers F.C. and London Wasps

References

  1. ^ Office for national Statistics

External links

This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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