Swale

For other meanings of swale see Swale (disambiguation).

Borough of Swale

Shown within Kent
Geography
Status: Borough
Region: South East England
Admin. County: Kent
Area:
- Total Ranked 126th
373.40 km²
Admin. HQ: Sittingbourne
ONS code: 29UM
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2004 est.)
- Density Ranked {{English district rank

/ km²
Ethnicity: 98.1% White
Politics

Swale Borough Council
http://www.swale.gov.uk/
Leadership: Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs: Hugh Robertson(C), Derek Wyatt(Lab)
Swale is a local government district in Kent, England. Its council is based in Sittingbourne. The borough is named after the narrow channel called The Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey, and which occupies the central part of the district.

Borough of Swale
Shown within Kent
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Kent
Area: - Total	Ranked 126th 373.40 km²
Admin. HQ:	Sittingbourne
ONS code:	29UM
Demographics
Population: - Total (2004 est.) - Density	Ranked {{English district rank / km²
Ethnicity:	98.1% White
Politics
Swale Borough Council http://www.swale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Hugh Robertson(C), Derek Wyatt(Lab)

The Roman Watling Street passed through the area, as witness the straightness of the A2 main road, now by-passed by the M2 motorway. Apart from northern coast of the Isle of Sheppey, and the immediate areas around the towns, it is a mainly rural borough.

The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, from the boroughs of Faversham and Queenborough-in-Sheppey (which covered all of Sheppey), the Sittingbourne and Milton urban district and Swale Rural District.

There are four towns in the borough: Sittingbourne and Faversham on the mainland; Sheerness, Queenborough on the Isle. In addition local government is carried out by the following parish councils:

Badlesmere
Bapchild
Bobbing
Borden
Boughton-under-Blean
Bredgar
Doddington
Dunkirk
Eastchurch
Eastling
Faversham Without
Goodnestone
Graveney
Hartlip
Hernhill
Iwade
Leaveland
Leysdown
Lower Halstow
Lynsted
Milstead
Minster-on-Sea
Newington
Newnham
Norton Buckland & Stone
Oare
Ospringe
Rodmersham
Rushenden
Selling
Sheldwich
Stalisfield
Teynham
Throwley
Tonge
Tunstall
Warden

Districts of South East England
Adur \| Arun \| Ashford \| Aylesbury Vale \| Basingstoke and Deane \| Bracknell Forest \| Brighton & Hove \| Canterbury \| Cherwell \| Chichester \| Chiltern \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Eastbourne \| East Hampshire \| Eastleigh \| Elmbridge \| Epsom and Ewell \| Fareham \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Hart \| Hastings \| Havant \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Lewes \| Maidstone \| Medway \| Mid Sussex \| Milton Keynes \| Mole Valley \| New Forest \| Oxford \| Portsmouth \| Reading \| Reigate and Banstead \| Rother \| Runnymede \| Rushmoor \| Sevenoaks \| Shepway \| Slough \| Southampton \| South Bucks \| South Oxfordshire \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Swale \| Tandridge \| Test Valley \| Thanet \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Vale of White Horse \| Waverley \| Wealden \| West Berkshire \| West Oxfordshire \| Winchester \| Windsor and Maidenhead \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing \| Wycombe
Counties with multiple districts: Berkshire - Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex

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