Lewes District

Lewes District
Location in East Sussex
status	District
region	South East England
Administration County	East Sussex
Administrative headquarters	Lewes
surface	292.07 km²
Residents	97,502 (2011)
ONS code	21UF
Website	www.lewes.gov.uk

Lewes is a district in East Sussex , England . It is named after the administrative seat of Lewes .

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 and was created from the merger of Borough Lewes, the urban districts of Newhaven and Seaford and the Rural District Chailey.

structure

The district is divided into 29 parishes ( Civil Parish ):

Barcombe Beddingham Chailey Ditchling East Chiltington Falmer Frippery Glynde Hamsey Iford

Kingston Near Lewes Lewes Newhaven Newick Peacehaven Piddinghoe Plumpton Ringmer Rodmell Seaford

South Heighton Southease St Ann (Without) St John (Without) Streat Tarring Neville Telscombe Westmeston Wivelsfield

Of these parishes, 22 have their own, Glynde and Beddingham a joint parish council (Parish Council). Iford, Southease, St Ann, St John, Streat and Tarring Neville do not have such a body; instead, residents' assemblies are held. Lewes, Newhaven, Peacehaven, Seaford and Telscombe are small towns ( Town ), accordingly the council there is called Town Council .

Facilities

The Fire Brigade East Sussex is a Lewes-based fire service organization providing fire protection and general aid to their district. It was formed in 1974 from the former brigades Brighton, Hastings, Eastbourne and East Sussex. In addition to its headquarters in Lewes, the Fire Brigade has two divisional headquarters in Brighton and Eastbourne, six shift stations, six day-manned stations and twelve retained stations. The staff of the Grafschaft-Fire Brigade consists of full-time and part-time firefighters, full-time employees in the control and radio center as well as administration in Lewes and other non-uniformed personnel.

Web links

• Statistical data based on the census on the site of the 2011 Office for National Statistics (English)
• District Lewes in the database of the Ordnance Survey (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Town and parish councils on the joint Lewis and Eastbourne district website, accessed March 27, 2018
2. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : East Sussex Fire Brigade . In: Florian Hessen 4/1989 . Munkelt Verlag, Wiesbaden 1989, p. 31-32 . ISSN 0936-5370 .  

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '  N , 0 ° 1'  E