21-617: Frimley Green is a large village and ward of 580 acres (2.3 km) in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey , England, approximately 30 mi (48 km) southwest of central London . It is 1 mi (1.6 km) south of the town of Frimley . Lakeside Country Club was the national venue for the BDO international darts competition. It was played yearly in the village between 1986 and 2019. The nearest railway stations are Frimley on
42-537: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using
63-520: A full range of acute services to patients North East Hampshire and West Surrey in 1974. After Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot closed in 1996, the hospital was selected by the Ministry of Defence to host one of the Ministry of Defence Hospital Units . The hospital was built with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete beams which were the subject of a safety alert in 2019. In 2022 it
84-610: A wooded area with an activity trail and a miniature railway . Frimley Lodge Park consisting of wide-ranging recreational areas is between the developed south-centre of Frimley Green and Mytchett . The nearest railway station is Frimley which is linked to Ash Vale . Otherwise in neighbouring settlements are Farnborough North on the North Downs Line and Farnborough (Main) (on the South West Main Line from Southampton to London Waterloo which marks
105-1030: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on
126-473: The Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use the term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas,
147-525: The Local Government (Boundaries) (NI) Order 1972 (No. 131) and DEAs were first created by the Local Government (District Electoral Areas) Regulations 1973 (No.94) Frimley Park Hospital Frimley Park Hospital is a large general hospital in Frimley , Surrey . It is managed by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust , and houses a private wing. Frimley Park Hospital was opened to provide
168-807: The electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in the United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as
189-653: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by
210-597: The Ascot to Guildford Line, the only railway within its bounds, which at the next station south merges into the Alton Line from London to Alton , Hampshire then becomes part of the North Downs Line . Frimley Green, as with many British villages bearing the word green, is named after a central village green . The Basingstoke Canal runs alongside the park in the south and has a traditional wharf and inn here. Frimley Green's main green spaces comprise large playing fields,
231-479: The hospital was one of only three in England rated "outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission . In 2023 the hospital paid a £39 million settlement to a young girl who lost all four limbs after staff at the hospital failed to diagnose meningitis promptly. The trust admitted its errors in failing to diagnose meningitis despite red flags for meningitis and sepsis being present when the patient
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#1732801259273252-564: The hospital will be rebuilt as it contains significant amounts of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete. The Guardian newspaper noted that a 2020 proposal to rebuild Frimley Park Hospital was not funded by HM Treasury during Rishi Sunak 's term as Chancellor of the Exchequer , despite a "catastrophic" grade of risk and a warning that an incident was "likely". Royal family: Other notable births: After an inspection in August 2015
273-548: The line between Ascot and Aldershot , Farnborough North on the North Downs Line and Farnborough (Main) on the South West Main Line . The land slopes down from Deepcut , partly on the Chobham Ridges to the east, to the River Blackwater which is preceded by the lakes and small woods in the south-west of the ward which form the boundary with Hampshire . Most of the woods and lakes are sectioned off by
294-688: The local football team, and play in the Premier Division of the Combined Counties Football League . The area of the ward is 580 acres (2.3 km). At the United Kingdom Census 2011 its population had risen from 5,639 (ten years before) to 5,717. As to households there were 2,266, owned by 47.1% of people on a loan and 35.2% outright. Greater than the national and local averages, 55.2% of the population described their health as very good. The ward
315-481: The remaining land, chiefly the manor house to Mr. Tekel(l) and by 1911 the land had virtually all been subdivided. Frimley Green gained, from its mother area, Frimley, half of a formal identity in 1889, when its first church was built, replaced in 1912. This remains joined with Mytchett in providing a choice of services, offered by the Church of England . Catering to an expanded late 20th century population across
336-481: The southern border). Stagecoach South bus services connect the village to Farnborough (and to Camberley, which is also served as the next station north of Frimley by rail). Main schools are Frimley Church of England School and Cross Farm Infant School. The main road connecting the area inter-regionally is the M3 motorway , centred 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north, which has a junction near to its closest point. Frimley
357-558: The wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly the same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and
378-632: The west of the district, in 1969 a Roman Catholic church was built just across the border in Frimley to the north and Frimley Park Hospital was built in 1974 in Frimley. Lakeside Country Club is to the south of the village, and hosted the British Darts Organisation ’s (BDO) World Professional Darts Championship each January from 1986 to 2019 before the event moved to The Indigo at the O2 Arena, London. Frimley Green F.C. are
399-545: Was a chapelry of Ash which local nobles had established as a manor from 1277. Henry Elliot Malden in the Victoria County History (1911–12) believes Frimley manor may have been the land in Ash purchased by Bartholomew de Winton, Abbot of Chertsey Abbey in 1277, from a Sir Walter Raleigh (not his more famous explorer namesake). Henry VIII granted it to Sir John White of Aldershot . James Tichborne sold
420-415: Was announced that operating theatres would be taken out of use to allow for urgent work on their roofs. This would reduce the capacity for operations by around 2,000. Emergency work would also affect its ability to admit elective patients to beds. The reinforcement works, which are temporary, would cost £8.1 million in 2022-23, and around £10 million in subsequent years. On 25 May 2023 it was announced that
441-511: Was created on the establishment of a council in 1965. Wards of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, the electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while
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