south cambridgeshire

olspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"\|South Cambridgeshire District
olspan=2 align=center\|150px Shown within Cambridgeshire
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Geography
idth="45%"\|Status:	District
a href="/encyclopedia/Regions-of-England" title="Regions of England">Region:	East of England
dmin. County:	Cambridgeshire
a href="/encyclopedia/Surface-area" title="Surface area">Area: - Total	Ranked 37th 901.63 km²
dmin. HQ:	Cambourne
a href="/encyclopedia/ONS-coding-system" title="ONS coding system">ONS code:	12UG
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Demographics
a href="/encyclopedia/Population" title="Population">Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 133rd 131,014 145 / km²
thnicity:	97.1% White
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Politics
olspan=2 align=center\| South Cambridgeshire District Council http://www.scambs.gov.uk/
a href="/encyclopedia/Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors" title="Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors">Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
xecutive:	Conservative + Liberal Democrats + Independent
a href="/encyclopedia/MPs-elected-in-the-UK-general-election,-2001" title="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001">MPs:	Andrew Lansley, James Paice

South Cambridgeshire is a mostly rural district of Cambridgeshire, England. It was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Chesterton Rural District and South Cambridgeshire Rural District. It surrounds the city of Cambridge, which is administered separately from the district. After the abolition of South Herefordshire and Hereford districts to form the unitary Herefordshire in 1998, it is the only English district to completely surround another. The district's coat of arms (shown on the right) contains a reference to the coat of arms of Cambridge University. The motto, the same as that of the old Chesterton Rural District, means "Nothing without work" in Dutch. The district council's headquarters moved from Cambridge to Cambourne in 2004.

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