Mid Sussex
| Mid Sussex District | |
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| Non-metropolitan district | |
Boundary: Mid Sussex - Lewes
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 Mid Sussex shown within West Sussex |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | South East England |
| Non-metropolitan county | West Sussex |
| Status | Non-metropolitan district |
| Admin HQ | Haywards Heath |
| Incorporated | 1 April 1974 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Non-metropolitan district council |
| • Body | Mid Sussex District Council |
| • Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Conservative) |
| • MPs |
Nick Herbert Francis Maude Nicholas Soames |
| Area | |
| • Total | 128.97 sq mi (334.02 km2) |
| Area rank | 130th (of 326) |
| Population (mid-2015 est.) | |
| • Total | 145,700 |
| • Rank | 137th (of 326) |
| • Density | 1,100/sq mi (440/km2) |
| • Ethnicity | 95.3% White 1.6% S.Asian 1.0% Black 1.2% Mixed Race |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC0) |
| • Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
| Website | www |
Mid Sussex is a local government district in the English county of West Sussex. It contains the towns of East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill.
The district was created on 1 April 1974 from parts of East Sussex: the urban districts of Cuckfield, Burgess Hill, and East Grinstead and nearly all of Cuckfield Rural, the far north-west of which was transferred to Crawley.
The district borders the Tandridge district of Surrey to the north, Wealden and Lewes district to the east, and Brighton and Hove to the south, all in East Sussex, and Horsham district to the west and Crawley, northwest, equally in West Sussex.
The Prime Meridian passes through the district, has most headwaters of the River Ouse, Sussex and its largest body of water is Ardingly reservoir which is used by watersports clubs. The north of the area is the High Weald has sections of Ashdown Forest.
Within the Mid Sussex District are the following civil parishes:
Population increased substantially in the 19th century, with most of this increase in the most urban areas and leading by its close to urban districts, town-based and rural districts, multi-village-based.
Mid Sussex was first, in 1885, another name for the Lewes constituency when Sussex representation was reformed to nine approximately equal electorate seats.
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