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Surrey

Surrey
County
Surrey.svg Surrey shield.svg
Flag Coat of arms
Surrey UK locator map 2010.svg
Surrey in England
Coordinates: 51°15′N 0°25′W / 51.250°N 0.417°W / 51.250; -0.417Coordinates: 51°15′N 0°25′W / 51.250°N 0.417°W / 51.250; -0.417
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Country England
Region South East
Established Ancient
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant Michael More-Molyneux
High Sheriff Richard Whittington (2016-17)
Area 1,663 km2 (642 sq mi)
 • Ranked 35th of 48
Population (mid-2015 est.) 1,168,800
 • Ranked 12th of 48
Density 703/km2 (1,820/sq mi)
Ethnicity 95.0%White
2.2% S. Asian
Non-metropolitan county
County council Surrey County Council
Executive Conservative
Admin HQ Kingston upon Thames (Extra-territorially)
Area 1,663 km2 (642 sq mi)
 • Ranked 25th of 27
Population 1,168,800
 • Ranked 5th of 27
Density 703/km2 (1,820/sq mi)
ISO 3166-2 GB-SRY
ONS code 43
GSS code E10000030
NUTS UKJ23
Website www.surrey.gov.uk
Surrey numbered districts.svg
Districts of Surrey
Unitary County council area
Districts
  1. Spelthorne
  2. Runnymede
  3. Surrey Heath
  4. Woking
  5. Elmbridge
  6. Guildford
  7. Waverley
  8. Mole Valley
  9. Epsom and Ewell
  10. Reigate and Banstead
  11. Tandridge
Members of Parliament List of MPs
Police Surrey Police
Time zone GMT (UTC)
 • Summer (DST) BST (UTC+1)
Surrey
Population
 • 1891 452,218
 • 1971 1,002,832
History
 • Created c.825
 • Abolished N/A
 • Succeeded by N/A
Status Administrative county
 • HQ Newington 1889–1893
Kingston upon Thames from 1893
The arms granted to Surrey County Council in 1934 and used until 1974

Surrey /ˈsʌri/ is a county in the south east of England and also one of the home counties bordering Greater London. Surrey shares borders with Kent to the east, East Sussex to the south-east, West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west and south-west and Berkshire to the north-west. The county town is Guildford.Surrey County Council sits extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames, administered as part of Greater London since 1965. With a resident population of 1.1 million, Surrey is the most densely populated and third most populated county in the South East region, after Kent and Hampshire.

Today, administrative Surrey is divided into eleven districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and Woking. Services such as roads, mineral extraction licensing, education, strategic waste and recycling infrastructure, birth, marriage, and death registration, and social and children's services are administered by Surrey County Council. The London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, and parts of Lewisham and Bromley were in Surrey until 1889. The boroughs of Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton and Richmond upon Thames south of the River Thames were part of Surrey until 1965, when they too were absorbed into Greater London. In the same year, the county gained its first area north of the Thames, Spelthorne, from defunct Middlesex. As a result of this gain, modern Surrey also borders on the London boroughs of Hounslow and Hillingdon.


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