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Chiltern (district)

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Chiltern District
Shown within Buckinghamshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Buckinghamshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 190th 196.35 km²
Admin. HQ:	Amersham
ONS code:	11UC
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 255th 90,300 460 / km²
Ethnicity:	95.5% White 2.5% S.Asian
Politics
Chiltern District Council http://www.chiltern.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Cheryl Gillan, David Lidington

Chiltern is one of four local government districts of Buckinghamshire in south central England. It is named after the Chiltern Hills on which the region sits.

The main towns in the district are Amersham and Chesham. It was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the Chesham Urban District and Amersham Rural District (which entirely surrounded it).

The parishes that make up Chiltern District are:

In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas ^[1] showed that housing in Chiltern produced the 4th highest average carbon emissions in the country at 7,421 kg of carbon dioxide per dwelling.

See also: Energy efficiency in British housing.

^ British Gas news

List of organisations within the district

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Districts of South East England

Adur • Arun • Ashford • Aylesbury Vale • Basingstoke and Deane • Bracknell Forest • Brighton & 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
Counties with multiple districts: Berkshire • Buckinghamshire • East Sussex • Hampshire • Kent • Oxfordshire • Surrey • West Sussex

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