| Forest Heath District | |
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 Shown within Suffolk |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | East of England |
| Admin. County: | Suffolk |
| Area: - Total |
Ranked 107th 377.71 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Mildenhall |
| ONS code: | 42UC |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2008 est.) - Density |
Ranked 307th 64,700 171 / 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/ |
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| 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.
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Communities
The district contains three market towns and twenty civil parishes.
Towns
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
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