17-454: Stanway may refer to: Places in England [ edit ] Stanway, Essex Stanway, Gloucestershire People [ edit ] Georgia Stanway (born 1999), English association football player Mark Stanway (born 1954), British musician Peter Powers (real name Peter Stanway), British television personality who purports to be
34-576: A "Humanities and Maths & Computing College". Four of the five schools are close together, on adjacent roads with the third primary behind the Tollgate shopping centre. A shopping district comprising The Tollgate Centre and Stane Park occupies an area close to the A12, these centres are home to national retailers such as B&Q, Sainsbury's, Homebase, Next and Marks and Spencer (having closed its city centre store in 2022). Further shops and businesses such as
51-537: 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
68-463: A hypnotist Other [ edit ] Stanway House , a Jacobean manor house near Stanway, Gloucestershire Stanway Rovers F.C. , a football club based in Stanway, Essex Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Stanway . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
85-459: A king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia , who was killed in 794 AD. It was in existence in the late 11th century and was a parish church soon afterwards but was referred to as a chapel in later documents. The oldest parts of the present building date from the 12th century and incorporate Roman bricks in the heads of some of the windows. A new chancel was added in 1880 when the church
102-819: Is a village and civil parish in the Colchester district, in Essex , England near Colchester . 'Stanway' is an Anglo-Saxon name for the 'stone way' of the Roman road, now the A12 . In 2011 the parish had a population of 8509. Stanway is about 3 miles (5 km) west of Colchester city centre on the B1408 (former A12), near the junction of the A12 and the A1124 at Eight Ash Green . Colchester Zoo , The Stanway School , Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn , founder members of Blur , met at
119-975: 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
136-473: 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,
153-653: 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
170-458: The 16th century, but was repaired and the chancel and north aisle were demolished in about 1605 by Sir John Swinterton, when it became the private chapel to Stanway Hall. In the early 18th century the church was said to be "utterly decayed" and remains a ruin. The current Church of England parish church is dedicated to Saint Albright, who is generally identified with Saint Ethelbert the King ,
187-696: The Co-op, Halfords and Hatfields occupy the Peartree road area, An electoral ward with the same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 8,283. In the early Middle Ages Stanway had two churches; All Saints' next to Stanway Hall, and St Albright's in Little Stanway on the London Road (now the B1408). All Saints' church, first recorded in about 1260, had fallen out of use during
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#1732772433865204-528: 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
221-716: 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 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
238-433: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanway&oldid=1190928957 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Stanway, Essex Stanway
255-647: The local school, The Stanway School . Stanway is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The £4.3m A12 bypass opened in 1970. Local pubs include the Princess Charlotte (the first pub in the UK to be named after Princess Charlotte of Wales ) and the Swan on London Road, and Live and Let Live on Millers Lane. There are five schools – three primary schools, Lexden Springs School and The Stanway School which has academy status, and describes itself as
272-558: 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
289-552: Was restored by George Gilbert Scott . In 1996, before the expansion of the Stanway sand and gravel quarry, an archaeological team was called in to investigate the outline of five ancient ditched enclosures identified by aerial photography. There, just off the A12 to Colchester , they discovered the grave of the " Druid of Colchester ". Stanway has a non-League football club Stanway Rovers F.C. who play at New Farm Road. [REDACTED] Media related to Stanway, Essex at Wikimedia Commons Wards and electoral divisions of
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