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Borough of Colchester
Colchester
Shown within Essex
Geography
Status: Borough
Region: East of England
Admin. County: Essex
Area:
- Total
Ranked 147th
333.18 km²
Admin. HQ: Colchester
ONS code: 22UG
Demographics
Population:
- Total ()
- Density
Ranked {{EnglishDistrictRank

/ km²
Ethnicity: 96.2% White
1.2% S.Asian
Politics
Arms of Colchester Borough Council
Colchester Borough Council
http://www.colchester.gov.uk/
Leadership: Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs: Bernard Jenkin, Bob Russell
Colchester is a local government district and borough in Essex, England, the district is named after its main town, Colchester. The borough covers an area of 125 square miles and stretches from Dedham Vale on the Suffolk border in the north to Mersea Island on the Colne Estuary in the south.

The borough was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the former borough of Colchester with the urban districts of West Mersea and Wivenhoe, along with Lexden and Winstree Rural District.


Districts of the 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

Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk

 


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