Sevenoaks

Coordinates: 51°16′41″N 0°11′15″E / 51.2781°N 0.1874°E / 51.2781; 0.1874

Sevenoaks is a town situated in western Kent, England, 21 miles (34 km) south-east of Charing Cross, on a commuter main line from the capital London. The town gives its name to the Sevenoaks district, of which it is the principal town, followed by Swanley and Edenbridge.

A settlement was recorded in the 13th century, when a market was established. Construction of Knole House in the 15th century helped develop the village. Sevenoaks became part of the modern communications network when one of the early turnpikes was opened in the 18th century; the railway was relatively late in reaching it. In the 21st century, it has a large commuting population although the nearby Fort Halstead defence installation is a major local employer. Located to the south-east of the town is Knole Park, within which lies Knole House.

Educational establishments in the town include the independent Sevenoaks School and Knole Academy.

Etymology

Urban district

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Specific subdivisions in some countries:

Urban districts of Ukraine

An urban district or urban raion (Ukrainian: Райони у містах України) is an administrative division of certain cities in Ukraine. An urban district is subordinate to the city administration.

Overview

There are 111 districts in 19 cities of Ukraine. The cities that contain district division in a city usually are of national (such as Kiev and Sevastopol) or regional significance. The number of districts in city per region varies between the minimum of two and up to 21 in Donetsk Oblast (the maximum districts in a single city are in Kiev).

The Article 133 of the Constitution of Ukraine states that districts in cities are element of the administrative-territorial division of state, while the Article 140 states that issues in organization of management of districts in cities belongs to the competence of city's councils.

The status of Kiev city is defined by the Law of Ukraine "About capital of Ukraine - Hero-city Kiev".

List of urban districts in Ukraine

Kiev

Sevastopol

Note: Under number five is indicated the city of Inkerman (part of Balaklava Raion).

List of urban districts of Vietnam

The urban district (Vietnamese: quận Chữ nôm: (郡)) is the second-level administrative subdivision in Vietnam. Other kinds of second-level administrative subdivision of Vietnam are the rural district (huyện), the provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and the town (Thị xã). Urban districts can only subordinate to the centrally-controlled municipalities. The urban district is subdivided into wards (phường).

Before 1975, in South Vietnam, all second-level administrative subdivisions are called districts (quận), regardless of urban or rural areas. For example, quận Châu Thành, Vĩnh Long Province is in the urban of present Vĩnh Long city, and quận Trà Ôn was the rural of present Vĩnh Long Province.

As of December 31, 2008, Vietnam has 46 urban districts.Ho Chi Minh City with 19 urban districts has the most. Cần Thơ City with 5 urban districts has the least.

List of urban district in Vietnam

Hà Nội (10 urban districts)

Sevenoaks District

Sevenoaks is a local government district in Kent, England, in the far west of the county. Its council is in the town of Sevenoaks.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Sevenoaks Urban District, Sevenoaks Rural District and part of Dartford Rural District and is one of thirteen districts in the geographic county of Kent, one of which has unitary authority status, Medway, which means it does not obtain services or projects from Kent County Council. The latter is responsible for highways, public paths, fire and rescue, certain aspects of health and social care and education/libraries. The rest of local government is mostly at district level although the area has civil parish councils also.

Geography

The area is approximately evenly divided between buildings and infrastructure on the one hand and woodland or agricultural fields on the other. It contains the upper valley of the River Darenth and some headwaters of the River Eden.

In terms of districts, it borders Dartford to the north, Gravesham to the northeast, Tonbridge and Malling to the east, briefly Tunbridge Wells to the southeast. It also borders two which, equal to it, do not have borough status, the Wealden district of East Sussex to the south and the Tandridge district of Surrey to the southwest. It borders the London Boroughs of Bromley and Bexley to the northwest.

Sevenoaks (UK Parliament constituency)

Sevenoaks is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Michael Fallon, a Conservative.

History

This constituency has existed since the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

With the exception of the one-year Parliament in 1923, the constituency has to date been a Conservative stronghold.

Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett before entering Parliament was a leader writer at The Standard and lived in India for many years, working at the Bombay Gazette before becoming both editor and principal proprietor of the Times of India. Bennett returned to England in 1901 and in 1910 unsuccessfully contested his first Parliamentary election, losing to Alfred Gelder at the time of David Lloyd George and H. H. Asquith's celebrated "People's Budget". He represented the seat for five years from 1918.

Higher in government in this period was Hilton Young, the Health Secretary between 1931 and 1935. The health portfolio at the time included responsibility for housing, including slum clearance and rehousing. Key items of legislation to which he contributed in this period were: the Town and Country Planning Act (1932) (which applied to all 'developable' land), the Housing Act (1935) (which laid down standards of accommodation) and the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act (1935) (which sought to consolidate urban development and restrict ribbon sprawl along major highways).