Shepway District Council
| Shepway District | |
|---|---|
| Non-metropolitan district | |
 Shepway shown within Kent |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | South East England |
| Non-metropolitan county | Kent |
| Status | Non-metropolitan district |
| Admin HQ | Folkestone |
| Incorporated | 1 April 1974 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Non-metropolitan district council |
| • Body | Shepway District Council |
| • Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Conservative) |
| • MPs | Damian Collins |
| Area | |
| • Total | 137.7 sq mi (356.7 km2) |
| Area rank | 118th (of 326) |
| Population (mid-2016 est.) | |
| • Total | 111,200 |
| • Rank | 212th (of 326) |
| • Density | 810/sq mi (310/km2) |
| • Ethnicity | 97.3% White 1.5% S.Asian |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC0) |
| • Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
| ONS code | 29UL (ONS) E07000112 (GSS) |
| OS grid reference | TR2233835912 |
| Website | www |
Shepway is a local government district in Kent, England which takes up the south-east corner of the county. Its council is in the town of Folkestone.
Most of the population live in the coastal towns of Folkestone and Hythe. In landscape villages interspersed with woods along parts of the North Downs are in the north. In the south is a coastal expanse of lower lying, periodically reclaimed villages over the centuries in less forested Romney Marsh which has a number of communities extensively built in the medieval period and 17th century as centres of the Romney Marsh wool trade. Contrasting with this the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and M20 motorway influence the economy in part of the north of the district and a source of employment across Shepway is in the tourism and allied retail sectors. Folkestone has a number of Business Parks. The Lydd peninsula has two largely 17th century towns: Lydd and New Romney, beaches at Greatstone-on-Sea, Camber Sands. In built structures it has the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Lydd Airport and the Old Lighthouse, at the apex of the peninsula are the employment sites of the present and former power stations.
The modern district covers roughly the same area as the Lathe of Shepway, which contained the hundreds and liberties of Aloesbridge, Bircholt, Folkestone, Ham, Heane, Longport, Loningborough, Lydd, Newchurch, New Romney, Stouting/Stowting, Street and Worth. Its 1861 population was 51,826. The lathe originated as the territory of the Limenwara, one of the regiones of Jutish Kent, but had become obsolete by the end of the 19th Century, before reappearing in its present guise in 1974. Windmills served to assist pumping of water as well as grinding of corn, barley, rye and wheat in the district.
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