East Dorset
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| East Dorset District | |
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 Shown within Dorset |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | South West England |
| Admin. County: | Dorset |
| Area: - Total |
Ranked 135th 354.37 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Wimborne |
| ONS code: | 19UD |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 273rd 85,200 240 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 99.0% White |
| Politics | |
 East Dorset District Council http://www.eastdorsetdc.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Alternative - Sec.31 |
| Control: | Conservative |
| MPs: | Christopher Chope, Robert Walter |
East Dorset is a local government district in Dorset, England. Its council is based in Wimborne.
The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Wimborne Minster urban district with part of the Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District and the Wimborne and Cranborne rural district. The district was originally known as Wimborne, and adopted its present name in 1988.
The popularity of the area being close to the New Forest, Bournemouth and The Dorset coast has seen a rapid expansion in housing from the 1970s with Verwood, Ferndown, West Moors and Corfe Mullen populations more than quadrupling. However, there still remains a rural feel, especially in the north and west of the area. Wimborne Minster has managed to retain it's identity as a historic market town.
East Dorset also contains a large amount of the remaing lowland heath, managed by East Dorset Countryside Management Services in partnership with the Forestry Commission. The expansion of housing has, unfortunately, led to a massive decrease in the acreage of this unusual and unique habitat, which once covered 50,000 hectares and now cover only 15% of their previous area.
As of October 2004, statistics released[1] by the Office for National Statistics show that life expectancy at birth for males in East Dorset was 80.1 years in 2001-2003, the highest in the United Kingdom. Female life expectancy at birth for the same period was 83.4 years, ranking seventh in the UK. The figures for East Dorset during 1991-1993 were 77.9 years for males and 82.5 for females.
[edit] Settlements
- Settlements with a population over 2,500 are in bold.
- Alderholt
- Chalbury, Colehill, Corfe Mullen, Cranborne
- Edmondsham
- Ferndown
- Gussage
- Hinton Martell, Hinton Parva, Holt, Horton
- Long Crichel
- Moor Crichel
- Pamphill, Pentridge
- St Ives, St Leonards, Shapwick, Sixpenny Handley, Sturminster Marshall
- Verwood
- West Moors, West Parley, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne St Giles, Witchampton, Woodlands
| Districts of South West England |  |
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Bath and North East Somerset | Bournemouth | Bristol | Caradon | Carrick | Cheltenham | Christchurch | Cotswold | East Devon | East Dorset | Exeter | Forest of Dean | Gloucester | Isles of Scilly | Kennet | Kerrier | Mendip | Mid Devon | North Cornwall | North Devon | North Dorset | North Somerset | North Wiltshire | Penwith | Plymouth | Poole | Purbeck | Restormel | Salisbury | Sedgemoor | South Gloucestershire | South Hams | South Somerset | Stroud | Swindon | Taunton Deane | Teignbridge | Tewkesbury | Torbay | Torridge | West Devon | West Dorset | West Somerset | West Wiltshire | Weymouth and Portland |
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Counties with multiple districts: Cornwall - Devon - Dorset - Gloucestershire - Somerset - Wiltshire |
