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Non-metropolitan district in England

Braintree District
Non-metropolitan district
Braintree. the administrative centre of the district and one of the three towns
Braintree shown within Essex
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	East of England
Non-metropolitan county	Essex
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Braintree
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Braintree District Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet (Conservative)
• MPs	James Cleverly Priti Patel
Area
• Total	236.18 sq mi (611.71 km)
• Rank	58th (of 296)
Population
• Total	157,681
• Rank	131st (of 296)
• Density	670/sq mi (260/km)
• Ethnicity	95.% White 1.1% Mixed 1.3% S.Asian 1.0% Black
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	22UC (ONS) E07000067 (GSS)
OS grid reference	TL7522
Website	www.braintree.gov.uk

Braintree is a local government district in the English county of Essex, with a population (2011 census) of 147,084. Its main town is Braintree. The three towns of the district are Braintree, Halstead and Witham. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the urban districts of Braintree and Bocking, Halstead, and Witham and (for list of parishes) Braintree Rural District and Halstead Rural District.

The council is controlled by the Conservatives who hold 34 of the 49 seats.

There are 26 wards:

Coat of arms of Braintree District
Notes Granted 15th October 1974. Crest On a wreath of the colours on a mount Vert in front of a garb Or a boar passant Azure crined and unguled Or supporting with the dexter fore-hoof a Maltese cross Gules. Escutcheon Gules a pale Or between two seaxes in pale points upward Argent hilts pommels and quillons Or over all a fess wavy Argent charged with a bar wavy Sable in chief a lion rampant Azure a like lion in base. Supporters On either side a lion Sable gorged with a riband Argent pendent therefrom by a ring a mullet Argent surmounted of a pentagon Or fimbriated and charged with a fleur-de-Lys Vert and holding in the month a shuttle erect threaded Proper. Motto By Wisdom And Foresight. Badge A mullet Argent surmounted of a pentagon Or fimbriated and charged with a fleur-de-Lys Vert.

v t e Ceremonial county of Essex
Unitary authorities	Southend-on-Sea Thurrock
Boroughs or districts	Basildon Braintree Brentwood Castle Point Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Harlow Maldon Rochford Tendring Uttlesford
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Aveley Basildon Billericay Braintree Brentwood Brightlingsea Buckhurst Hill Burnham-on-Crouch Canvey Island Chadwell St Mary Chelmsford Chigwell Chipping Ongar Clacton-on-Sea Coggeshall Colchester Corringham Dovercourt Epping Frinton-on-Sea Grays Great Dunmow Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Harwich Leigh-on-Sea Loughton Maldon Manningtree Pitsea Purfleet Rayleigh Rochford Saffron Walden Shoeburyness South Benfleet South Ockendon Southend-on-Sea South Woodham Ferrers Stanford-le-Hope Thaxted Thundersley Tilbury Waltham Abbey Walton-on-the-Naze West Mersea West Thurrock Wickford Witham Wivenhoe See also: List of civil parishes in Essex
Rivers	Blackwater Brain Cam Can Chelmer Ching Cobbins Brook Colne Crouch River Lea River Lee Flood Relief Channel Mardyke Pincey Brook Prittle Brook Roach Roding Roman Stort Stour Stour Brook Ter
Category

v t e Districts of the East of England
Bedfordshire	Bedford Central Bedfordshire Luton
Cambridgeshire	Cambridge East Cambridgeshire Fenland Huntingdonshire Peterborough South Cambridgeshire
Essex	Basildon Braintree Brentwood Castle Point Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Harlow Maldon Rochford Southend-on-Sea Tendring Thurrock Uttlesford
Hertfordshire	Broxbourne Dacorum East Hertfordshire Hertsmere North Hertfordshire St Albans Stevenage Three Rivers Watford Welwyn Hatfield
Norfolk	Breckland Broadland Great Yarmouth King's Lynn and West Norfolk North Norfolk Norwich South Norfolk
Suffolk	Babergh East Suffolk Ipswich Mid Suffolk West Suffolk

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