NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Waverley, Surrey

Borough of Waverley
Shown within Surrey
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Surrey
Area: - Total	Ranked 139th 345.17 km�
Admin. HQ:	Godalming
ONS code:	43UL
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 171st 115,976 336 / km�
Ethnicity:	97.4% White
Politics
Waverley Borough Council http://www.waverley.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Liberal Democrats
MPs:	Sue Doughty, Virginia Bottomley

Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. The borough's headquarters are in the town of Godalming, although the largest town is Farnham. The borough’s other town is Haslemere, which has about the same population as the village of Cranleigh.

Waverley neighbours the boroughs of Guildford and Mole Valley in Surrey, and the counties of West Sussex and Hampshire.

The borough is named for Waverley Abbey, near Farnham, the earliest Cistercian monastery in Britain.

Waverley is a Wealden borough, bounded to the north by the Hog’s Back section of the North Downs. It is one of the most heavily wooded boroughs in England.

Other settlements in the borough include:

Alfold

Bramley

Chiddingfold, Churt

Dunsfold

Elstead, Ewhurst

Farncombe, Frensham

Grayshott

Hambledon, Hascombe, Hindhead

Milford

Tilford

Witley, Wonersh

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: Surrey

Results from FactBites:

Waverley, Surrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (218 words)
	Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England.
	Waverley neighbours the boroughs of Guildford and Mole Valley in Surrey, and the counties of West Sussex and Hampshire.
	Waverley is a Wealden borough, bounded to the north by the Hog’s Back section of the North Downs.

Welcome to Waverley Abbey (843 words)
	Waverley Abbey is a large junior school with 480 pupils on roll.
	Waverley Abbey is a happy, caring school with high expectations of its children.
	Waverley Abbey provides a stimulating, balanced and broadly based education, which, within the Framework of the National Curriculum, affords every child the opportunity to excel wherever their strengths may be.

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