Welwyn Hatfield
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- For the constituency, see Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency)
| Welwyn Hatfield district | |
|---|---|
 Shown within Hertfordshire | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Borough |
| 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 {{English district rank / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 93.7% White 2.3% South Asian 1.4% Afro-Caribbean |
| Politics | |
 Welwyn Hatfield Council [http://welhat.gov.uk/] | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | |
| MP: | Grant Shapps |
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. HMSO. [S.I. 1972/2039] It petitioned for borough status in 2005, which was agreed to by the Privy Council on November 15 2005. [Minutes of the Privy Council meeting] on November 15, 2005. In April 2006 a charter conferring borough status was granted, and the title of the council officially changed to Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council on May 22 2006. [Press Release, Welwyn Hatfield Council May 162006.]
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 is a locally important landmark.
References
| Districts of the East of England |
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| 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 | |
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Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk |
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