charnwood

olspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Borough of Charnwood
olspan=2 align=center\| Shown within Leicestershire
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Geography
idth="45%"\|Status:	Borough
a href="/encyclopedia/Regions-of-England" title="Regions of England">Region:	East Midlands
dmin. County:	Leicestershire
a href="/encyclopedia/Surface-area" title="Surface area">Area: - Total	Ranked 164th 279.06 km²
dmin. HQ:	Loughborough
a href="/encyclopedia/ONS-coding-system" title="ONS coding system">ONS code:	31UC
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Demographics
a href="/encyclopedia/Population" title="Population">Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 102nd 153,383 550 / km²
thnicity:	91.7% White 6.0% S.Asian
olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"\|Politics
olspan=2 align=center\|Charnwood Borough Council http://www.charnwoodbc.gov.uk/
a href="/encyclopedia/Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors" title="Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors">Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
xecutive:	Labour + Liberal Democrats
a href="/encyclopedia/MPs-elected-in-the-UK-general-election,-2001" title="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001">MPs:	Stephen Dorrell, Andy Reed

Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in northern Leicestershire, England. It is named for Charnwood Forest, which it contains. The main town is Loughborough. It was formed in 1974 as a merger of the borough of Loughborough, the Shepshed urban district and the Barrow-on-Soar Rural District. To the south it borders Leicester, about 20km away from Loughborough. There is a moderately urbanised 'A6' corridor between the towns and close to the River Soar, including Quorn, Barrow-on-Soar, Mountsorrel, Birstall, Thurnby, Syston and East Goscote. Other places in the district include Shepshed. Charnwood is represented in Parliament by the Conservative Stephen Dorrell, the former National Heritage Secretary (1994 - 1995) and Health Secretary (1995 - 1997) during John Major's Government.

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