Newtown is a suburb in the town of
Poole
Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...
in
Dorset
Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
, England. It was formerly an electoral ward, which had a population 12,515 at the 2011 census.
Governance
Newtown is part of
Newtown and Heathlands ward for elections to
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, which styles itself BCP Council, is the Local government in England, local authority for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Th ...
.
Newtown is part of the
Poole parliamentary constituency.
References
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Areas of Poole
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