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This is a list of the 296 districts of England ordered by area, according to Standard Area Measurements published by the Office for National Statistics. [1] The area is defined as 'area to mean high water excluding inland water'. [2]
At the highest level, all of England is divided into nine regions that are each made up of a number of counties and districts. These "government office regions" were created in 1994, [ 12 ] and from the 1999 Euro-elections up until the UK's exit from the EU, they were used as the European Parliament constituencies in the United Kingdom and in ...
Somerset is a rural county in southwest England with an area of 4,171 square kilometres (1,610 sq mi). It is bounded on the north-west by the Bristol Channel, on the north by Bristol and Gloucestershire, on the east by Wiltshire, on the south-east by Dorset, and on the south west and west by Devon.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:35, 14 March 2011: 1,356 × 1,226 (1,007 KB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of the Somerset Levels, UK (and surrounding area) with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map project
The North Somerset Levels basin, north of the Mendips, covers a smaller geographical area than the Somerset Levels; and forms a coastal area around Avonmouth. It too was reclaimed by draining. [65] [66] It is mirrored, across the Severn Estuary, in Wales, by a similar low-lying area: the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels. [66]
Map of Somerset, UK with districts shown. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 155% Geographic limits: West: 3.96W; East: 2.12W; North: 51.55N; South: 50.80N; Date: 17 July 2010: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Most data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product.
The exceptions were Malvern Hills and Leominster, which were both split between the new district of Herefordshire and a new district of Malvern Hills. See List of rural and urban districts of England for a list of the districts as they stood immediately before 1 April 1974.
The districts of England (officially, local authority districts, abbreviated LADs) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. [1] As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four principal types of district-level subdivision.