Waverley, Surrey

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Borough of Waverley
Shown within Surrey
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Surrey
Area: - Total	Ranked 139th 345.17 km²
Admin. HQ:	Godalming
ONS code:	43UL
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 176th 116,800 338 / km²
Ethnicity:	97.4% White
Politics
Waverley Borough Council http://www.waverley.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Jeremy Hunt, Anne Milton

Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. The borough's headquarters are in the town of Godalming, although the largest town is Farnham. The borough’s other town is Haslemere, which has about the same population as the village of Cranleigh.

Waverley neighbours the boroughs of Guildford and Mole Valley in Surrey, and the counties of West Sussex and Hampshire. The borough is named for Waverley Abbey, near Farnham, the earliest Cistercian monastery in Britain. The borough also contains Blackheath Common an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Waverley is a Wealden borough, bounded to the north by the Hog’s Back section of the North Downs. It is one of the most heavily wooded boroughs in England. It takes its name from Waverley Abbey, whose ruins are within the district (as does local wandering side Waverley Cricket Club, who have used the name 'Waverley' since 1952^[1]).

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The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the municipal borough of Godalming, with Farnham and Haslemere urban districts and Hambledon Rural District.

The 3 May 2007 borough elections produced 51 Conservative seats, 3 Liberal Democrat seats and 3 Independent.^[2]