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2010–2023: The Borough of Medway wards of Gillingham North, Gillingham South, Hempstead and Wigmore, Rainham Central, Rainham North, Rainham South, Twydall and Watling.. 2023–present: Further to a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [3] [4] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the Borough of Medway:
Park Wood or Parkwood is a housing estate and district in Gillingham at the south-eastern corner of the Medway conurbation in Kent, England.It was built mainly during the 1960s and 1970s, largely by Ward Homes, and originally called Rainham Park.
A 2017 study found that, when comparing low-end rent to low-end earnings, private rented housing in Havering is the most affordable of any London borough. [8] Named neighbourhoods are the developments of Ardleigh Green, Chase Cross, Collier Row, Elm Park, Harold Hill, Rainham. The borough's exurbs with green buffers of farmland or parkland are:
Rainham (/ ˈ r eɪ n ə m / RAY-nəm) is a suburb of East London, England, in the London Borough of Havering. [2] Historically an ancient parish in the county of Essex, Rainham is 13.6 miles (21.9 km) east of Charing Cross [2] and is surrounded by a residential area, which has grown from the historic village, to the north and a commercial area, fronting the River Thames, to the south.
Rainham and Wennington is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Havering. The ward was first used in the 2002 elections . It returns three councillors to Havering London Borough Council .
The 2015 Medway Council election took place on 7 May 2015, alongside the 2015 UK General Election.The elections were to elect all 55 seats across 22 wards. The Conservatives held the council, with 36 seats (a majority of 16).
Historically, Rainham was a separate village. In 1921 the civil parish had a population of 4335. [2] On 1 April 1929 the parish was abolished and merged with Gillingham [3] and became part of the Municipal Borough of Gillingham, which was originally created in 1903 and was grouped into the latter's built-up area in analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics. [4]
Dagenham and Rainham Dagenham was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament that elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.