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Swale is a local government district
Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially 'shire districts', are a type of Districts of England in England. As originally created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan county in a so-called "two-tier" arrangement....
 in Kent
Kent

Kent is a Counties of England in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. Its council is based in Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town about eight miles east of Gillingham, Medway in England, beside the Ancient Rome Watling Street off a creek in the Swale, a channel separating the Isle of Sheppey from mainland Kent....
. The borough is named after the narrow channel called The Swale
The Swale

The name The Swale refers to the strip of sea separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey....
, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey
Isle of Sheppey

The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some 38 miles to the east of central London. It has an area of 36 square miles ....
, and which occupies the central part of the district.

The Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 Watling Street
Watling Street

Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans....
 passed through the area, as witness the straightness of the A2 main road, now by-passed by the M2 motorway
M2 motorway

The M2 is a motorway in Kent, England. It is 25.7 miles long and acts as a bypass of the section of the A2 road which runs through the Medway Towns, Sittingbourne and Faversham....
. Apart from northern coast of the Isle of Sheppey, and the immediate areas around the towns, it is a mainly rural borough.

The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972
Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in the United Kingdom in England and Wales, on 1 April 1974....
, from the boroughs of Faversham
Faversham

Faversham is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. The parish of Faversham includes an ancient sea port and market town, some 48 miles east of London, off the London to Dover A2 road , 18 miles east north-east of Maidstone and 9 miles west of Canterbury....
 and Queenborough-in-Sheppey
Queenborough-in-Sheppey

Queenborough-in-Sheppey was a municipal borough in Kent, England from 1968, to 1974. It was created a merger of the municipal borough of Queenborough, with the Sheerness urban district and Sheppey Rural District, and occupied the entire Isle of Sheppey....
 (which covered all of Sheppey), the Sittingbourne and Milton
Sittingbourne and Milton

Sittingbourne and Milton was an urban district in Kent, England, consisting of the settlements of Sittingbourne and Milton Regis. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and made part of the Swale district....
 urban district
Urban district

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....
 and Swale Rural District.

Swale railway station
Swale railway station

Swale railway station is in north Kent, England. The station is on the Sheerness Line north of Sittingbourne railway station at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge which connects the Isle of Sheppey to mainland Kent....
 is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge
Kingsferry Bridge

The Kingsferry Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers....
.

There are four towns in the borough: Sittingbourne and Faversham
Faversham

Faversham is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. The parish of Faversham includes an ancient sea port and market town, some 48 miles east of London, off the London to Dover A2 road , 18 miles east north-east of Maidstone and 9 miles west of Canterbury....
 on the mainland; Sheerness
Sheerness

Sheerness is a town located beside the mouth of the River Medway on the northwest corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 12,000 it is the largest town on the island....
, Queenborough
Queenborough

Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.Queenborough is two miles south of Sheerness....
 on the Isle.






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Swale is a local government district
Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially 'shire districts', are a type of Districts of England in England. As originally created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan county in a so-called "two-tier" arrangement....
 in Kent
Kent

Kent is a Counties of England in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. Its council is based in Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town about eight miles east of Gillingham, Medway in England, beside the Ancient Rome Watling Street off a creek in the Swale, a channel separating the Isle of Sheppey from mainland Kent....
. The borough is named after the narrow channel called The Swale
The Swale

The name The Swale refers to the strip of sea separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey....
, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey
Isle of Sheppey

The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some 38 miles to the east of central London. It has an area of 36 square miles ....
, and which occupies the central part of the district.

The Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 Watling Street
Watling Street

Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans....
 passed through the area, as witness the straightness of the A2 main road, now by-passed by the M2 motorway
M2 motorway

The M2 is a motorway in Kent, England. It is 25.7 miles long and acts as a bypass of the section of the A2 road which runs through the Medway Towns, Sittingbourne and Faversham....
. Apart from northern coast of the Isle of Sheppey, and the immediate areas around the towns, it is a mainly rural borough.

The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972
Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in the United Kingdom in England and Wales, on 1 April 1974....
, from the boroughs of Faversham
Faversham

Faversham is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. The parish of Faversham includes an ancient sea port and market town, some 48 miles east of London, off the London to Dover A2 road , 18 miles east north-east of Maidstone and 9 miles west of Canterbury....
 and Queenborough-in-Sheppey
Queenborough-in-Sheppey

Queenborough-in-Sheppey was a municipal borough in Kent, England from 1968, to 1974. It was created a merger of the municipal borough of Queenborough, with the Sheerness urban district and Sheppey Rural District, and occupied the entire Isle of Sheppey....
 (which covered all of Sheppey), the Sittingbourne and Milton
Sittingbourne and Milton

Sittingbourne and Milton was an urban district in Kent, England, consisting of the settlements of Sittingbourne and Milton Regis. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and made part of the Swale district....
 urban district
Urban district

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....
 and Swale Rural District.

Swale railway station
Swale railway station

Swale railway station is in north Kent, England. The station is on the Sheerness Line north of Sittingbourne railway station at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge which connects the Isle of Sheppey to mainland Kent....
 is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge
Kingsferry Bridge

The Kingsferry Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers....
.

There are four towns in the borough: Sittingbourne and Faversham
Faversham

Faversham is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. The parish of Faversham includes an ancient sea port and market town, some 48 miles east of London, off the London to Dover A2 road , 18 miles east north-east of Maidstone and 9 miles west of Canterbury....
 on the mainland; Sheerness
Sheerness

Sheerness is a town located beside the mouth of the River Medway on the northwest corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 12,000 it is the largest town on the island....
, Queenborough
Queenborough

Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.Queenborough is two miles south of Sheerness....
 on the Isle. In addition local government is carried out by the following parish councils:

  • Bapchild
    Bapchild

    Bapchild, originally Baccanceld, is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about two miles east of Sittingbourne. It lies on the A2, and according to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,068....
  • Bobbing
    Bobbing, Kent

    Bobbing is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about a mile north-west of Sittingbourne, and forming part of its urban area. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,694....
  • Borden
    Borden, Kent

    Borden is a village situated immediately south west of Sittingbourne, Kent, from which it is separated by a small area of rural land. The history of the name is questioned....
  • Boughton-under-Blean
  • Bredgar
    Bredgar

    Bredgar is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. The village lies some 4 miles to the southwest of Sittingbourne on the road between Tunstall, Kent and Hollingbourne....
  • Conyer
    Conyer

    Conyer is a village in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. Located at the apex of Conyer Creek, it is home to a marina. It also sits on the routes of both the Saxon Shore Way and National Cycle Route 1....
  • Doddington
    Doddington, Kent

    Doddington is a rural England village, in the south eastern county of Kent, within the borough of Swale. A picturesque village nestling in the Syndale Valley with neighbouring village Newnham, Kent and is in the Kent Downs, designated as an 'area of outstanding natural beauty'....
  • Dunkirk
    Dunkirk, Kent

    Dunkirk is a village between Faversham and Canterbury in England.The origin of the village's name is still not very clear, but it is understood that the name was a result of a house, lived in by a Frenchman from Dunkerque in France, who named his house 'Dunkirk'....
  • Eastchurch
    Eastchurch

    Eastchurch is a village on the Isle of Sheppey, a mile east of Minster-in-Sheppey, England. As the village website says "... it has a history steeped in stories of piracy and smugglers"....
  • Eastling
    Eastling

    Eastling is a small village 4? miles to the southwest of Faversham, Kent in England. It is set in a designated Kent Downs AONB on the slope of the North Downs....
  • Faversham
    Faversham

    Faversham is a town in Kent, England, in the district of Swale, roughly halfway between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. The parish of Faversham includes an ancient sea port and market town, some 48 miles east of London, off the London to Dover A2 road , 18 miles east north-east of Maidstone and 9 miles west of Canterbury....
  • Goodnestone
    Goodnestone

    Goodnestone may mean the following places in Kent, United Kingdom.*Goodnestone, Swale is the smaller of the two villages, near Faversham, just north of the Thanet Way ....
  • Graveney
    Graveney

    Graveney is a village between Faversham and Whitstable in Kent, England....
  • Hartlip
    Hartlip

    Hartlip is a village and civil parish in the borough of Swale, in the county of Kent, England. The population estimate was 680 in 1991, and in 2001 there were 566 registered voters....
  • Hernhill
    Hernhill

    Hernhill is a village in the borough of Swale in Kent, England....
  • Iwade
    Iwade

    Iwade is a small village on the north side of Detling Hill, close to the town of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. With quick access to the M2 motorway & M20 motorways, as well as within a short driving distance to Maidstone, and further Canterbury & Faversham....
  • Leysdown
  • Lower Halstow
    Lower Halstow

    Lower Halstow is a village located in Kent, England. The village is situated on the banks of the Medway Estuary and it has a long and interesting history, with evidence of constant occupation since the iron age....
  • Lynsted
    Lynsted

    Lynsted is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. The village is situated south of the A2 road, between Faversham and Sittingbourne....
  • Kemsley
    Kemsley

    Kemsley today is a suburb of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. At the end of the 19th century it was simply a row of cottages beside a brickworks until, in 1924 when Frank Lloyd built the new Paper mill....
  • Milstead
    Milstead

    Milstead is a village in the borough of Swale in Kent, England....
  • Milton Regis
    Milton Regis

    Milton Regis is a village in the district of Swale in Kent, England. It has a population of about 5,100. It is a suburb of Sittingbourne.The area was once heavily involved in the paper manufacturing industry, the local mill ceasing production in January 2007....
  • Minster-on-Sea
  • Murston
    Murston

    Murston is a suburb of Sittingbourne in Kent, England.References...
  • Newington
    Newington, Swale

    Newington is a village in Kent, England on the A2 road between Chatham, Medway to the west and Sittingbourne to the east. The local district council is Swale....
  • Newnham
    Newnham, Kent

    Newnham is a small picturesque village in the Syndale valley in Kent, England, in the administrative borough of Swale near the medieval market town of Faversham....
  • Norton Buckland & Stone
  • Oare
    Oare, Kent

    Oare is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.It is separated from Faversham by the Oare Creek. To the north of the village are the Oare Marshes, and the Harty Ferry which linked to Harty on the Isle of Sheppey....
  • Ospringe
    Ospringe

    Ospringe is a village and civil parish in the England county of Kent.Located south of Faversham, Ospringe forms part of Swale district. It lies a few hundred yards south of the Roman Britain road Watling Street and remains of substantial Roman buildings have been found to its north-west; the ruins of the abandoned Stone Chapel, Kent lie ne...
  • Rodmersham
  • Rushenden
    Rushenden

    Rushenden is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England....
  • Selling
    Selling, Kent

    Selling is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.Selling railway station is on the Chatham Main Line.Selling station has good connections with Canterbury, Dover, Faversham, Sittingbourne, Bromley and London....
  • Sheldwich, Badlesmere and Leaveland
  • Stalisfield
  • Teynham
    Teynham

    Teynham is a large village, and civil parish in Kent, England, in the district of Swale. The parish spans the A2 road some three miles west of Faversham, and extends north to include the hamlet of Conyer, on an inlet of the The Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey....
  • Throwley
    Throwley

    Throwley is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.Throwley lies on top of the kent North Downs in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty....
  • Tonge
    Tonge

    Tonge may refer to the following people:*Jenny Tonge, British politician*Israel Tonge, English devine*Roger Tonge, British actor*Michael Tonge, English footballer...
  • Tunstall
    Tunstall, Kent

    Tunstall is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. Situated to the south of Sittingbourne, Tunstall is a small linear village. Notable sights include St John the Baptist Church, the associated Church of England primary school and large village manor house, and a former police house which is now a private residency....
  • Warden
    Warden, Kent

    Warden is a small holiday village located on the northeast coast of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, United Kingdom. It is also known as Warden Bay....