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Braintree (district)
Braintree is a local government district in the English county of Essex, with a population (2011 census) of 147,084. Its main town is Braintree. The three towns of the district are Braintree, Halstead and Witham. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Braintree and Bocking, Halstead, and Witham and (for list of parishes) Braintree Rural District Braintree Rural District was a rural district in the county of Essex, England. It was created in 1894. In 1934 the parish of Bocking was removed from the rural district and became part of the newly created Braintree and Bocking Urban Distric ... and Halstead Rural District. Council The council is controlled by the Conservatives who hold 34 of the 49 seats. The council is based at Causeway House on Bocking End in Braintree. The building was purpose-built for the council and opened in 1981. Wards There are 26 wards: * Bocking Blackwater *Bocking North *Bocking South * Braintree C ...
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the 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 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 Sun crosses the Greenwich Meridian and reaches its highest ...
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List Of English Districts By Area
This is a list of districts of England ordered by area, according to Standard Area Measurements published by the Office for National Statistics The Office for National Statistics (ONS; cy, Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament. Overview The ONS is responsible for .... More than 1,000 km2 100–1,000 km2 Less than 100 km2 References {{List of Settlements in the UK Districts by area Districts of England Demographics of England Local government in England ...
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Braintree District Council, Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree - Geograph
Braintree may refer to: Places * Braintree, Essex, a town in England ** Braintree District ** Braintree (UK Parliament constituency) ** Braintree Town F.C., a football club in the town * Braintree, Massachusetts, a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States ** Braintree High School * New Braintree, Massachusetts, a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States * Braintree, Vermont, a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States Transportation * Braintree Airport, in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States (closed 1970) * Braintree railway station (England), in Braintree, Essex, England * Braintree station (MBTA), in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States Other uses * Braintree (company) Braintree is a Chicago-based company that primarily deals in mobile and web payment systems for e-commerce companies. The company was acquired by PayPal on September 26, 2013. History Braintree was founded by Bryan Johnson in 2007. By 2011, the ...
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White Hart Hotel, Witham, Essex - Geograph
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th century, with the advent of neoclassical architecture, white became the most common color of new churches, ...
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Halstead Rural District
Halstead was a rural district in Essex, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the Halstead rural sanitary district. In 1934 it was greatly enlarged by adding the areas of the disbanded Belchamp Rural District and Bumpstead Rural District. It was abolished under the 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 Gov ... and now forms part of the district of Braintree. References *https://web.archive.org/web/20070927221624/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10025930 {{coord, 52.0, 0.6, type:adm3rd_dim:25000_region:GB-ESS, display=title Political history of Essex Local government in Essex Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Districts of England abolis ...
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Braintree Rural District
Braintree Rural District was a rural district in the county of Essex, England. It was created in 1894. In 1934 the parish of Bocking was removed from the rural district and became part of the newly created Braintree and Bocking Urban District, thus dividing the rural district into two detached parts. It was named after Braintree and administered from Bocking. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the District of Braintree. At the time of its dissolution it consisted of the following 20 civil parishes. *Bardfield Saling *Black Notley * Bradwell *Coggeshall *Cressing * Fairstead * Faulkbourne *Feering *Finchingfield *Great Bardfield *Great Saling *Hatfield Peverel *Kelvedon * Panfield * Rayne * Shalford *Stisted *Terling * Wethersfield *White Notley White Notley is a parish in Essex, England. The settlement (which includes the outlying hamlet of The Green) lies equidistant between the towns of Witham and Braintree amongst arable farmland, in each direction. Whit ...
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Witham Urban District
Witham () is a town in the county of Essex in the East of England, with a population ( 2011 census) of 25,353. It is part of the District of Braintree and is twinned with the town of Waldbröl, Germany. Witham stands between the city of Chelmsford (8 miles to the south-west) and the City of Colchester (13 miles to the north-east), on the Roman road between the two. The River Brain runs through the town and joins the River Blackwater just outside. History Early history Excavations by Essex County Council Field Archaeological unit at the recent Maltings Lane development discovered evidence of Neolithic occupation at Witham, including human remains and several trackways across ancient marsh. Excavations of the Witham Lodge (Ivy Chimneys) area of the town in the 1970s unveiled remains of a Roman temple as well as a pottery kiln. This would have been alongside the main Roman road from Colchester to London and used as a stopover point on the long journey. Another notable find during ...
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Halstead Urban District
Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. Its population of 11,906 in 2011Office for National Statistics: ''Census 2001: Population Density, 2011''
Retrieved 29 November 2015.
was estimated to be 12,161 in 2019. The town lies near and , in the



Braintree And Bocking
Braintree and Bocking is an unparished area in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. It is around 10 miles from Chelmsford. It includes Braintree, Bocking, Bocking Churchstreet, High Garrett and Thistley Green. In 2021 it had a population of 45,168. It borders Black Notley, Cressing, Gosfield, Great Notley, Panfield, Rayne, Shalford, Stisted and Wethersfield, Essex, Wethersfield. History The parish was formed on 1 April 1934 from "Braintree" and "Bocking" parishes and parts of Black Notley, Gosfield Gosfield is a village in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is located around two miles west of the town of Halstead. Places of note include the following: * Gosfield Hall: a country house and Grade I listed building, dating back to 15 ..., Rayne and Stisted. Braintree and Bocking parish was an urban parish of Braintree and Bocking Urban District, thus having no parish council or meeting, instead relying only on the district council. Braintr ...
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Urban District (Great Britain And Ireland)
In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council (UDC), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council. England and Wales In England and Wales, urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 (by the Local Government Act 1894) as subdivisions of administrative counties. They replaced the earlier system of urban and rural sanitary districts (based on poor law unions) the functions of which were taken over by the district councils. The district councils also had wider powers over local matters such as parks, cemeteries and local planning. An urban district usually contained a single parish, while a rural district might contain many. Urban districts were considered to have more problems with public health than rural areas, and so urban district councils had more funding and greater p ...
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Witham
Witham () is a town in the county of Essex in the East of England, with a population ( 2011 census) of 25,353. It is part of the District of Braintree and is twinned with the town of Waldbröl, Germany. Witham stands between the city of Chelmsford (8 miles to the south-west) and the City of Colchester (13 miles to the north-east), on the Roman road between the two. The River Brain runs through the town and joins the River Blackwater just outside. History Early history Excavations by Essex County Council Field Archaeological unit at the recent Maltings Lane development discovered evidence of Neolithic occupation at Witham, including human remains and several trackways across ancient marsh. Excavations of the Witham Lodge (Ivy Chimneys) area of the town in the 1970s unveiled remains of a Roman temple as well as a pottery kiln. This would have been alongside the main Roman road from Colchester to London and used as a stopover point on the long journey. Another notable fin ...
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Halstead
Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. Its population of 11,906 in 2011Office for National Statistics: ''Census 2001: Population Density, 2011''
Retrieved 29 November 2015.
was estimated to be 12,161 in 2019. The town lies near and , in the