Borough of Erewash | |
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Borough | |
Shown within Derbyshire |
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Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | East Midlands |
Administrative county | Derbyshire |
Admin. HQ | Ilkeston |
Government | |
• Type | Erewash Borough Council |
• Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
• Executive: | Conservative |
• MPs: |
Pauline Latham, Maggie Throup |
Area | |
• Total | 42.3 sq mi (109.6 km2) |
Area rank | 212th |
Population (mid-2015 est.) | |
• Total | 114,500 |
• Rank | Ranked 201st |
• Density | 2,700/sq mi (1,000/km2) |
Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) |
• Summer (DST) | British Summer Time (UTC+1) |
ONS code | 17UG (ONS) E07000036 (GSS) |
Ethnicity | 96.7% White 1.3% S.Asian |
Website | erewash.gov.uk |
Erewash (i/ˈɛrəwɒʃ/ ERR-ə-wosh) is a local government district and borough in eastern Derbyshire, England, to the east of Derby and the west of Nottingham. The population of the district as taken at the 2011 Census was 112,081. It contains the towns of Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Sandiacre and fourteen civil parishes.
The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Ilkeston, the Long Eaton urban district and part of South East Derbyshire Rural District.
The borough council's headquarters are split between each of the main urban areas at Long Eaton and Ilkeston Town Halls.