Warwick District
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Warwick | |
|---|---|
 Shown within Warwickshire | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Administrative county | Warwickshire |
| Admin. HQ | Leamington Spa |
| Government | |
| • Leadership: | Leader and cabinet |
| • MPs: | Chris White (C) Jeremy Wright (C) |
| • Rank | [[List of English districts by area|]] |
| • Rank | Ranked |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (British Summer Time) |
| ONS code | 44UF |
| Ethnicity | 90.8% White 5.3% South Asian 1.0% Black 1.6% Chinese or other 1.4% Mixed Race |
| Website | warwickdc.gov.uk |
Warwick is a local government district of central Warwickshire in England. The current leader of the district council is Conservative Party member Michael Doody.[1] The council is currently controlled by the Conservative group, who hold 23 of the 46 council seats. Labour and the Liberal Democrats each have 9 councillors, the remaining 5 councillors sitting as independents.[2]
The district comprises the towns of Warwick itself, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth and Whitnash, and also includes the surrounding rural areas. The district is bordered to the south and west by Stratford-on-Avon district to the north-east by Rugby borough and to the north by the metropolitan borough of Coventry.
Politics and History
The district council headquarters are in Leamington Spa. It employs more than 500 people in a four storey building near to the River Leam. The district council deal with issues such as waste management, the collection of council tax, planning/building regulations, council housing and council house repairs.
The district was created on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the former Leamington Spa and Warwick municipal boroughs, the Kenilworth urban district and the Warwick Rural District. The council claimed to have the 33rd cheapest council tax out of the 238 shire districts in the country.[3]
Parking
On 6 August 2007 on-street parking charges were introduced in certain parts of central Leamington, Warwick and Kenilworth for the first time. At this time parking also became decriminalised which meant that the district council and not the police were responsible for enforcing parking regulations.
Tourism and Leisure
Two of the most well known tourist attractions in the district are Warwick Castle and Kenilworth Castle, the latter being preserved the second ruined during the English Civil War. Also of interest are the National Trust property Baddesley Clinton and Wroxall Abbey. All three of the districts main towns, Leamington, Warwick and Kenilworth have many hotels, two of the better known ones being The Regent Hotel and a Hilton Hotel at Warwick. Warwick Racecourse hosts televised meetings several times a year and the English women's lawn bowls championships takes place in Leamington each year.
There are three public swimming pools and three leisure centres in the district as well as many public open spaces, the most well known being Leamington's Jephson Gardens and Newbold Comyn. There are two public pay-per-play golf courses, one in Leamington and one in Warwick. The biggest football teams in the area are Leamington F.C. and Racing Club Warwick.
All three towns have their own amateur theatres including the Talisman (Kenilworth), the Loft Theatre Company (Leamington), and The Bridge House Theatre (Warwick School). In addition, Playbox Theatre Company based in Warwick, works specifically with young people and Heartbreak Productions runs a programme of outdoor events, mainly in the summer months.
The Royal Spa Centre is the district's large scale professional theatre and runs a programme of theatre, drama, comedy, film and community events in its 794 seat main house and 160 seat studio theatre.
Travel
The district has these five railway stations Warwick, Warwick Parkway, Leamington, Hatton, and Lapworth. The Grand Union Canal flows through the district and the M40 motorway also passes through. Right on the edge of the district is found Coventry Airport at Baginton.
Parishes and settlements
The Warwick district includes the settlements and Parishes of:
- Ashow
- Baddesley Clinton, Baginton, Barford, Beausale, Bishops Tachbrook, Blackdown, Bubbenhall, Budbrooke, Bushwood
- Cubbington
- Eathorpe
- Haseley, Hatton, Honiley, Hunningham
- Kenilworth
- Lapworth, Leamington Spa, Leek Wootton
- Norton Lindsey
- Offchurch, Old Milverton
- Radford Semele, Rowington
- Sherbourne, Shrewley, Stoneleigh
- Wappenbury, Warwick, Wasperton, Weston Under Wetherley, Whitnash, Wroxall
For a list of wards in Warwick district by population click here.
Electoral wards
This is a guide to the size of the wards in Warwick District based on the data from the 2001 UK Census. The entire population of the district was 125,929.
| Rank | Ward | Population |
| 1 | Brunswick | 9,299 |
| 2 | Willes | 8,601 |
| 3 | Warwick South | 8,569 |
| 4 | Warwick North | 8,488 |
| 5 | Warwick West | 8,377 |
| 6 | Milverton | 8,269 |
| 7 | Manor | 8,162 |
| 8 | Park Hill | 8,124 |
| 9 | Whitnash | 7,796 |
| 10 | Abbey | 7,552 |
| 11 | St John's | 7,543 |
| 12 | Crown | 5,829 |
| 13 | Cubbington | 5,777 |
| 14 | Budbrooke | 5,223 |
| 15 | Clarendon | 4,954 |
| 16 | Stoneleigh | 3,049 |
| 17 | Lapworth | 2,870 |
| 18 | Bishop's Tachbrook | 2,514 |
| 19 | Radford Semele | 2,494 |
| 20 | Leek Wootton | 2,439 |
N.B. Ward populations will differ from the village population which they are named after and which they are linked to as ward boundaries very rarely match village boundaries exactly.
References
- ^ "Warwick DC". Retrieved ????-??-??.
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External links
- www.warwickdc.gov.uk, Warwick District Council.
