Aylesbury Vale District
Shown within non-metropolitan Buckinghamshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Buckinghamshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 36th 902.75 km²
Admin. HQ:	Aylesbury
ONS code:	11UB
Demographics
Population: - Total (2008 est.) - Density	Ranked 96th 176,000 195 / km²
Ethnicity[1]:	92.3% White 3.7% S.Asian 1.5% Black 1.5% Mixed 1.0% Chinese or Other
Politics
Aylesbury Vale District Council http://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	John Bercow, David Lidington

The Aylesbury Vale (or Vale of Aylesbury) is a large area of flat land mostly in Buckinghamshire, England. Its boundary is marked by Milton Keynes to the north, Leighton Buzzard and the Chiltern Hills to the east and south, Thame to the south and Bicester to the west.

Part of Aylesbury Vale taken from the top of Coombe Hill, looking towards Aylesbury

The vale is named after Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire. Two other towns lie within the vale and they are Winslow and Buckingham.

The bed of the vale is largely made up of clay that was formed at the end of the ice age. Also at this time the vast underground reserves of water that make the water table higher than average in the Vale of Aylesbury were created.

Today the area is a local government district of northern Buckinghamshire, administered by Aylesbury Vale District Council. This district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the boroughs of Aylesbury and Buckingham, Aylesbury Rural District, Buckingham Rural District, Wing Rural District and part of Winslow Rural District.

In the 2001 UK census the population of Aylesbury Vale was 165,748, representing an increase since 1991 of 18,600 people[1]. About half of those live in the county town Aylesbury.

There are 111 civil parishes: 84 with a parish or town council and a further 27 operating with a Parish meeting, see list of civil parishes in Aylesbury Vale

[edit] Transport

The district contains no motorway junctions, although the M40 does enter the district for five miles between junctions 8A and 9. Major roads include the A41, A413 and A418- which all meet at Aylesbury. For its size, the district contains relatively few railway stations; most of its stations are in the very south of the district along the London to Aylesbury Line- the major station being Aylesbury. At Aylesbury there are connecting services to Princes Risborough station. In addition, the West Coast and Chiltern main lines both pass through the district, each having a station within the district.

[edit] References

1. ^ Office for National Statistics

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