Southwest Middlesex is a municipality in

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, Canada. The restructured municipality of Southwest Middlesex was incorporated on January 1, 2001. This amalgamation joined the Village of Glencoe and the Village of Wardsville with the Townships of Ekfrid and Mosa. Southwest Middlesex had a population of 5,723 in the

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. Southwest Middlesex is located in the southwest corner of Middlesex County, about halfway between

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and Chatham.

Communities

The township includes the communities of Appin, Ekfrid, Glencoe, Lewis Corners, Macksville, Mayfair, Newbury Station, North Appin Station, North Ekfrid, North Glencoe Station, Riverside, Strathburn, Tait’s Corners, Wardsville and Woodgreen. It surrounds, but does not include, the independent village of Newbury. The township administrative offices are located in Glencoe. Wardsville was the site of the Battle of Longwoods during the

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Transportation

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's Longwood Subdivision passes through Southwest Middlesex. A signpost for Appin is at mile 23 of the Longwood Sub.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Southwest Middlesex had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

* Stott, Greg. ''Been to North Ekfrid Lately?": the Story of a Crossroads Community in Ontario'', Arkona, Ontario: G. Stott Publishing, 2002

External links

* {{Geographic location , Centre = Southwest Middlesex
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Communities

Transportation

Demographics

See also

References

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