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Horsham District
Shown within West Sussex
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	West Sussex
Area: - Total	Ranked 93rd 530.26 km�
Admin. HQ:	Horsham
ONS code:	45UF
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 151st 122,359 231 / km�
Ethnicity:	97.8% White
Politics
Horsham District Council http://www.horsham.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Howard Flight, Francis Maude

Horsham is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in Horsham. The district borders those of Crawley, Mid Sussex, Mole Valley, Chichester, Arun and Adur

Districts of England - South East England
Adur \| Arun \| Ashford \| Aylesbury Vale \| Basingstoke and Deane \| Bracknell Forest \| Brighton and Hove \| Canterbury \| Cherwell \| Chichester \| Chiltern \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Eastbourne \| East Hampshire \| Eastleigh \| Elmbridge \| Epsom and Ewell \| Fareham \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Hart \| Hastings \| Havant \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Lewes \| Maidstone \| Medway \| Mid Sussex \| Milton Keynes \| Mole Valley \| New Forest \| Oxford \| Portsmouth \| Reading \| Reigate and Banstead \| Rother \| Runnymede \| Rushmoor \| Sevenoaks \| Shepway \| Slough \| Southampton \| South Bucks \| South Oxfordshire \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Swale \| Tandridge \| Test Valley \| Thanet \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Vale of White Horse \| Waverley \| Wealden \| West Berkshire \| West Oxfordshire \| Winchester \| Windsor and Maidenhead \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing \| Wycombe
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Berkshire - Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex

Categories: Stub | West Sussex

Results from FactBites:

Horsham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (892 words)
	Horsham is mentioned indirectly in the Domesday Book (although this is sometimes debated among historians) adjacent manorial lands and surrounding holdings are also mentioned.
	Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, west of Horsham, near Broadbridge Heath, and is commemorated by the Shelley Fountain, or 'Rising Universe' a large and intriguing fountain in the shape of a globe, in the town centre.
	Horsham is home to the well-known (sixth form) College of Richard Collyer, founded in 1532, and known more commonly as 'Collyers', on Hurst Road.

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