Fenland
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Fenland District | |
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Shown within Cambridgeshire | |
Geography | |
Status: | District |
Region: | East of England |
Admin. County: | Cambridgeshire |
Area: - Total | Ranked 91st 546.45 km² |
Admin. HQ: | March |
ONS code: | 12UD |
Demographics | |
Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density | Ranked 269th 85,568 157 / km² |
Ethnicity: | 98.6% White |
Politics | |
Missing image Arms-fenland.jpg Arms of Fenland District Council Fenland District Council http://www.fenland.gov.uk/ | |
Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
Executive: | Conservative |
MP: | Malcolm Moss |
Fenland is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in March, and covers the neighbouring market towns of Chatteris, Whittlesey, and Wisbech (often called the "capital of the fens"). The district covers around 500 square kilometers of mostly agricultural land in the extremely flat Fens.
It was formed in April 1, 1974, with the merger of the Borough of Wisbech, Chatteris Urban District, March Urban District, Whittlesey Urban District, North Witchford Urban District and Wisbech Rural District.
Please also see The Fens.
Districts of England - East of England | |
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 | |
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk |