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Braintree District
Shown within Essex
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Essex
Area: - Total	Ranked 73rd 611.71 km
Admin. HQ:	Braintree
ONS code:	22UC
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 128th 134,488 220 / km
Ethnicity:	98.2% White
Politics
Braintree District Council http://www.braintree.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative + Independent
MPs:	Alan Hurst, Alan Haselhurst

Braintree is a local government district in the English county of Essex. Its main town is Braintree.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Braintree and Brocking, Halstead, and Witham and Braintree Rural District and Halstead Rural District.

Districts of England - East of England
Babergh \| Basildon \| Bedford \| Braintree \| Breckland \| Brentwood \| Broadland \| Broxbourne \| Cambridge \| Castle Point \| Chelmsford \| Colchester \| Dacorum \| East Cambridgeshire \| East Hertfordshire \| Epping Forest \| Fenland \| Forest Heath \| Great Yarmouth \| Harlow \| Hertsmere \| Huntingdonshire \| Ipswich \| King's Lynn and West Norfolk \| Luton \| Maldon \| Mid Bedfordshire \| Mid Suffolk \| North Hertfordshire \| North Norfolk \| Norwich \| Peterborough \| Rochford \| St Albans \| St Edmundsbury \| South Bedfordshire \| South Cambridgeshire \| Southend-on-Sea \| South Norfolk \| Stevenage \| Suffolk Coastal \| Tendring \| Three Rivers \| Thurrock \| Uttlesford \| Watford \| Waveney \| Welwyn Hatfield
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk

Categories: Stub | Essex

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Braintree, Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (803 words)
	Braintree is a town of about 30,000 people in the county of Essex, in the south east of England.
	Braintree is twinned with the French town of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.
	Essex is rather flat on the whole, and the Braintree area is no exception; however, there is a general downward trend in the height of the ground from the northwest towards the coast to the southeast.

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