Forest Heath

Forest Heath District
Shown within Suffolk
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Suffolk
Area: - Total	Ranked 123rd 377.71 km²
Admin. HQ:	Mildenhall
ONS code:	42UC
Demographics
Population: - Total (2007 est.) - Density	Ranked 323rd 63,200 167 / km²
Ethnicity:	91.0% White 3.0% Black 1.3% S.Asian 3.1% Mixed Race[1]
Politics
Forest Heath District Council http://www.forest-heath.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:	Conservative
MP:	Richard Spring

Forest Heath is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council is based in Mildenhall. Other towns in the district include Newmarket.

The district's name reflects the fact that it contains parts of both Thetford Forest and the heathlands of Breckland. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Newmarket urban district and Mildenhall Rural District.

Forest Heath is the home to two of the largest USAF air bases in the UK, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, as well as the headquarters of British horse racing, Newmarket Racecourse.

[edit] Communities

The district contains three market towns and twenty civil parishes.

[edit] Towns

• Mildenhall
• Newmarket
• Brandon

[edit] Civil parishes

• Barton Mills
• Beck Row, Holywell Row and Kenny Hill
• Cavenham
• Dalham
• Elveden
• Eriswell
• Exning
• Freckenham
• Gazeley
• Herringswell
• Higham
• Icklingham
• Kentford
• Lakenheath
• Moulton
• Red Lodge
• Santon Downham
• Tuddenham
• Wangford
• Worlington

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Forest Heath District Council

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