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Wycombe District
Wycombe District was a local government district in Buckinghamshire in south-central England. Its council was based in the town of High Wycombe. The district was abolished on 31 March 2020 and its area is now administered by the unitary Buckinghamshire Council. It had introduced locality budgets before October 2013. History The district's name was drawn from the Barony of Wycombe which was originally given to Thomas Gilbert, in 1171. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of High Wycombe with Marlow Urban District and Wycombe Rural District. Constituent parts The Wycombe District Council area comprised: ;Towns *High Wycombe *Princes Risborough * Marlow ;Civil parishes There were 28 civil parishes including 2 where a Parish Meeting is held in lieu of a Parish Council. Sports clubs High Wycombe is home to Wycombe Wanderers F.C.; within the district's boundaries are the homes of Marlow F.C., Marlow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the Local mean time, mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a particular time unless a context is given. The term 'GMT' is also used as Western European Time, one of the names for the time zone UTC+00:00 and, in UK law, is the basis for civil time in the United Kingdom. English speakers often use GMT as a synonym for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For navigation, it is considered equivalent to UT1 (the modern form of mean solar time at 0° longitude); but this meaning can differ from UTC by up to 0.9s. The term GMT should thus not be used for purposes that require precision. Because of Earth's uneven angular velocity in its elliptical orbit and its axial tilt, noon (12:00:00) GMT is rarely the exact moment the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Smith (British Politician)
Greg David Smith (born 3 March 1979) is a British Conservative politician. Previously deputy leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Buckingham constituency since the 2019 general election. Early life Smith studied at Bromsgrove School and then the University of Birmingham. He has had a career in design and marketing. Smith was a trustee of Riverside Studios from 2008 to 2019. Career Smith was a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham Council between May 2006 and May 2018, and was also deputy leader of the council. In 2014, the Conservatives lost control of the council to Labour in the local elections, and Smith was appointed as Leader of the Conservative group. He stood down from the council in the 2018 elections. At the 2017 general election, he stood as the Conservative candidate in Hayes and Harlington, which has generally been a safe seat for the Labour Party in recent years. He lost to John McDonnell, with 28.6% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wycombe Wanderers F , Leicestershire, England
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Wycombe may refer to the following places: Australia *Wycombe, Queensland, a locality in the Maranoa REgion *High Wycombe, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth United Kingdom *High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England **Wycombe District, a local government district **Wycombe Rural District, a former local government district **Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency) United States * Wycombe, Pennsylvania, a village in Wrightstown Township, United States See also *Wickham (other) *Wykeham (other) *Wycomb Wycomb is a small hamlet in the district of Melton, which is approximately northeast of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and is part of the civil parish of Scalford, which also includes the neighbouring village of Chadwell. Until 1 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Marlow (; historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the River Thames, south-southwest of High Wycombe, west-northwest of Maidenhead and west of central London. Name The name is recorded in 1015 as ''Mere lafan'', meaning "Land left after the draining of a pond" in Old English. From Norman times the manor, parish, and later borough were formally known as Great Marlow, distinguishing them from Little Marlow. The ancient parish was large, including rural areas north and west of the town. In 1896 the civil parish of Great Marlow was divided into Great Marlow Urban District (the town) and Great Marlow civil parish (the rural areas). In 1897 the urban district was renamed Marlow Urban District, and the town has been known simply as Marlow. History Marlow is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Merlaue''. Magna Britannia includes the following entry for Marlow: "The manor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough () is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England, about south of Aylesbury and north west of High Wycombe. It lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, at the north end of a gap or pass through the Chilterns, the south end of which is at West Wycombe. The A4010 road follows this route from West Wycombe through the town and then on to Aylesbury. Historically it was both a manor and an ecclesiastical parish, of the same extent as the manor, which comprised the present ecclesiastical parish of Princes Risborough (excluding Ilmer) and also the present ecclesiastical parish of Lacey Green, which became a separate parish in the 19th century. It was long and narrow (a "strip parish"), taking in land below the Chiltern scarp, the slope of the scarp itself and also land above the scarp extending into the Chiltern hills. The manor and the parish extended from Longwick in the north through Alscot, the town of Princes Risborough, Loosley Row and Lacey Green to Speen an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wycombe Rural District
Wycombe Rural District was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England. Origins The district had its origins in the Wycombe Poor Law Union, which had been created in 1835, covering High Wycombe and several surrounding parishes. In 1872 sanitary districts were established, giving public health and local government responsibilities for rural areas to the existing boards of guardians of poor law unions. The Wycombe Rural Sanitary District therefore covered the area of the poor law union except for the town of High Wycombe, which was a municipal borough (officially called Chepping Wycombe until 1946) and so became its own urban sanitary district. The Wycombe Rural Sanitary District was administered from Wycombe Union Workhouse, which had been built in 1843 in open countryside in the parish of Saunderton, nearly five miles north-west of High Wycombe. Under the Local Government Act 1894, rural sanitary districts became rural distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlow Urban District
Marlow Urban District was a local government authority in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England, between 1896 and 1974, covering the town of Marlow. Origins When parish and district councils were established in December 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, the parish of Great Marlow was included in the Wycombe Rural District, which met at Wycombe Union Workhouse in Saunderton. Shortly after the new districts were established, the process began for creating a separate urban district to cover the town of Marlow. It was decided that the whole parish of Great Marlow was not suitable to be an urban district. Instead, it was decided to split it into two parishes: "Marlow (Urban)", covering the built-up area of the town, and a parish which would retain the name "Great Marlow", covering the more rural parts of the old parish. The reduced Great Marlow parish would stay in the Wycombe Rural District, whilst the new Marlow (Urban) parish would be governed by an urban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Borough Of High Wycombe
High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye, Buckinghamshire, River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, south-southeast of Aylesbury, southeast of Oxford, northeast of Reading, Berkshire, Reading and north of Maidenhead. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, High Wycombe's built up area has a population of 127,856, making it the second largest town in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire after Milton Keynes. The High Wycombe Urban Area, the conurbation of which the town is the largest component, has a population of 140,684. High Wycombe is mostly an unparished area. Part of the urban area constitutes the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Chepping Wycombe, which had a population of 14,455 according to the 2001 census – this parish represents that part of the ancient parish of Chepping Wycombe which was outside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant Acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Government of 1970–74. Its pattern of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan county and district councils remains in use today in large parts of England, although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986, and both county and district councils have been replaced with unitary authorities in many areas since the 1990s. In Wales, too, the Act established a similar pattern of counties and districts, but these have since been entirely replaced with a system of unitary authorities. Elections were held to the new authorities in 1973, and they acted as "shadow authorities" until the handover date. Elections to county councils were held on 12 April, for metropolitan and Welsh districts on 10 May, and for non-metropolitan distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locality Budget
A locality budget is a financial provision for a fund available to a local councillor so that they may apply the funds to address a local issue in the ward or division they represent. They have been advocated as a way in which the role of local councillors can be enhanced to address issues raised in the Local Government White Paper ''Strong and Strong and Prosperous Communities Communities'' published by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2006. That White Paper had claimed that "communities need strategic leadership to help bring together various local agencies and groups in order to build a vision of how to respond to and address a locality’s problems and challenges in a co-ordinated way." This was the authors' interpretation of Michael Lyons concept of " place shapers" as outlined in the Final Report of the Lyons Inquiry, ''Place-shaping: a shared ambition for the future of local government'' (2007). Sometimes locality budgets are called "Ward Budgets" when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinghamshire Council
Buckinghamshire Council is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary Local Government in England, local authority in England, the area of which constitutes most of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire. It was created in April 2020 from the areas that were previously administered by Buckinghamshire County Council including the districts of South Bucks, Chiltern District, Chiltern, Wycombe District, Wycombe and Aylesbury Vale; since 1997 the City of Milton Keynes has been a separate unitary authority. History The plan for a single unitary authority was proposed by Martin Tett, leader of the county council, and was backed by Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire. District councils had also proposed a different plan in which Aylesbury Vale becomes a unitary authority and the other three districts becomes another unitary authority. The district councils opposed the (single) unitary Buckinghamshire plan. Statutory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Districts By Population
This is a list of the 314 districts of England ordered by population, according to estimated figures for from the Office for National Statistics. The list consists of 188 non-metropolitan districts, 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan boroughs, 56 Unitary authorities of England, unitary authorities, and two ''sui generis'' authorities (the City of London and the Isles of Scilly). North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire are new unitary authorities from 1 April 2021. See also *List of two-tier counties of England by population *List of ceremonial counties of England by population *List of English districts by area *List of English districts and their ethnic composition *List of English districts by population density *List of districts in south east England by population *List of towns and cities in England by population References {{List of Settlements in the UK Demographics of England Districts of England England geography-related lists, Districts by populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
