Colnbrook with Poyle is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the borough of Slough in

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, England. Located approximately west of central London and adjacent to the

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boundary, it is an urbanised parish with some industrial development and open land. The local council is Colnbrook with Poyle Parish Council. The parish was created on 1 April 1995 as an amalgamation of Colnbrook from the parish of Iver with

Poyle Poyle is a largely industrial and agricultural area in the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority of Borough of Slough, Slough, in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Berkshire, England (of which it is the eastern ...

from an unparished area. At the 2001 census it had a population of 5,426.

History

The parish was formed on 1 April 1995. Most of Colnbrook had been from 1974 in the parish of

Iver Iver is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. In addition to the central nucleated village, clustered village, the parish includes the residential neighbourhoods of Iver Heath and Richings Park and the hamlets o ...

in South Bucks district in

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, and before 1974 had been mostly in the parish of Horton, with small areas in Langley Marish. Poyle had been in the unparished borough of Spelthorne in

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(before 1974 forming part of the Staines Urban District of Surrey which had transferred from

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in 1965). The new parish became part of

, and was the last boundary change before Berkshire County Council was abolished in 1998 and replaced by several

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Geography

It is at the eastern end of the borough of Slough, and is just to the west of the M25 motorway, which separates the parish from Heathrow Airport in the London Borough of Hillingdon in

References

External links

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The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994Colnbrook Views ''- news and discussion portal for residents of Colnbrook with Poyle''
Civil parishes in Berkshire Slough {{Berkshire-geo-stub