NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Chelmsford (borough)

Borough of Chelmsford
Shown within Essex
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Essex
Area: - Total	Ranked 141st 342.24 km�
Admin. HQ:	Chelmsford
ONS code:	22UF
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 99th 157,527 460 / km�
Ethnicity:	96.7% White 1.1% S.Asian
Politics
Chelmsford Borough Council http://www.chelmsfordbc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	John Whittingdale, Mark Francois, Simon Burns

Chelmsford is a local government district and borough in Essex, England. It is named after its main settlement, Chelmsford, which is also the county town of Essex.

Former borough arms

Other settlements in the borough include Great Baddow, Great Green, and Writtle.

The current district was formed on April 1, 1974 from the borough of Chelmsford, and most of the Chelmsford 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

Results from FactBites:

Chelmsford the Essex County Town. Directory, Community Forum, Local Information. CM1, CM2, CM3, CM4, CM5, CM6 (90 words)
	Chelmsford is the County Town for Essex and has much to be proud about, including it's rich history.
	The market and the Cathedral have both made Chelmsford an attractive place to be.
	If you are looking for the Chelmsford Borough Council website then you have come to the wrong place.

Chelmsford (1868 words)
	Chelmsford is home to the Diocese of Chelmsford, and Chelmsford Cathedral is the smallest cathedral in England, built in the 15th and early 16th centuries when it was the parish church of the prosperous medieval town.
	Chelmsford is also home to part of the Anglia Ruskin University and to the grammar schools of Chelmsford County High School and King Edward VI Grammar School founded in 1551 by charter of King Edward VI on the site on an earlier educational foundation.
	Chelmsford was significantly involved in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and Richard II moved on to the town after quelling the rebellion in London.

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