Three Rivers (district)

Three Rivers District
—  Non-metropolitan district  —
Three Rivers shown within Hertfordshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Non-metropolitan county	Hertfordshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Rickmansworth
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
– Type	Non-metropolitan district council
– Body	Three Rivers District Council
– Leadership	Leader & Cabinet (Liberal Democrat)
– MPs	David Gauke Anne Main Richard I. Harrington
Area
– Total	34.3 sq mi (88.8 km2)
Area rank	229th (of 326)
Population (2010 est.)
– Total	88,900
– Rank	262nd (of 326)
– Density	2,592.9/sq mi (1,001.1/km2)
– Ethnicity[1]	89.4% White 5.7% S.Asian 2.0% Black 1.7% Mixed Race 1.2% Chinese or Other
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
– Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ONS code	26UJ
OS grid reference	TQ0591494481
Website	www.threerivers.gov.uk

Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire in the East of England. Its council is based in Rickmansworth.

It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Rickmansworth Urban District and Chorleywood Urban District with part of Watford Rural District.^[2] The three rivers of the name are the Chess, Gade and Colne.

Politics

District council

Three Rivers is a non-metropolitan district that elects one-third of its councillors at any one time: three times every four years, with the fourth for elections to Hertfordshire County Council). In the 2010 elections, the council remained under Liberal Democrat control, having been first won by the Lib Dems from no overall control in 1999.

As of the 2008 elections, the composition of the council is:

Party		Councillors	Change (on 2008)
	Liberal Democrat	30	-1
	Conservative	14	+2
	Labour	3	-1
	BNP	1	-
Total		48	-
Source: BBC News

County council

For elections to Hertfordshire County Council, the district is divided into six divisions, three of which are held by the Conservatives, two by the Liberal Democrats, and one by Labour:

Seat	Councillor	Party
Abbots Langley	Paul Goggins		Liberal Democrat
Chorleywood	Leonard Spencer		Conservative
Croxley	Steve Drury		Liberal Democrat
Oxhey Park	Roy Clements		Conservative
Rickmansworth	Barbara Lamb		Conservative
South Oxhey	Jane Hobday		Labour
Source: Hertfordshire County Council

Parliament

For parliamentary elections, the district is divided across three constituencies. Most of the district is within the South West Hertfordshire constituency, which is considered a safe Conservative seat and held by a Conservative MP (currently David Gauke) since its creation in 1950. The eastern parts of the constituency, to the north and south of Watford, are part of that borough's constituency, which is a three-way marginal currently held by Conservative Richard Harrington, having fluctuated between Labour and the Conservatives. Most of the north-eastern ward of Bedmond and Primrose Hill is in the St Albans constituency, which is currently held by the Conservative Anne Main.

Seat	Wards	MP	Party
St Albans	Bedmond and Primrose Hill (part)	Anne Main		Conservative
South West Hertfordshire	Ashridge, Chorleywood East, Chorleywood West, Croxley Green, Croxley Green North, Croxley Green South, Hayling, Maple Cross and Mill End, Moor Park and Eastbury, Northwick, Penn, Rickmansworth, Rickmansworth West, Sarratt	David Gauke		Conservative
Watford	Abbots Langley, Bedmond and Primrose Hill (part), Carpenders Park, Langleybury, Leavesden, Oxhey Hall	Richard Harrington		Conservative
Source: Boundary Commission for England

Wards

Three Rivers is composed of twenty wards:

Abbots Langley Ashridge Bedmond and Primrose Hill Carpenders Park Chorleywood East

Chorleywood West Croxley Green Croxley Green North Croxley Green South Hayling

Langleybury Leavesden Maple Cross and Mill End Moor Park and Eastbury Northwick

Oxhey Hall Penn Rickmansworth Rickmansworth West Sarratt West Hyde

Transport

Train services in the district are provided by Chiltern Railways (CR), London Midland, London Overground and the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground (LU).

London Underground stations:

• Chorleywood served by CR and LU
• Croxley LU only
• Moor Park LU only
• Rickmansworth CR and LU

The track and stations are owned by London Underground.

A special fare structure exists as the stations are outside the Greater London boundary although much of the district is within the north westerly bounds of the M25 motorway and the London commuter belt.

If the proposed Croxley Rail Link goes ahead, it would run through the district, providing two new Underground stations between Croxley and Watford Junction.

London Overground stations:

• Carpenders Park (London - Watford line)

London Midland stations:

• Kings Langley (Euston - Northampton line)

Chiltern Railways stations:

• Chorleywood
• Rickmansworth

Settlements

• Abbots Langley
• Chorleywood
• Loudwater, Hertfordshire
• Maple Cross
• Moor Park, Hertfordshire
• Rickmansworth
• Sarratt
• South Oxhey

Footnotes

1. ^ Office for National Statistics: Neighbourhood Statistics: Three Rivers
2. ^ "About Three Rivers". Three Rivers District Council. May 2007. http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/AboutUs. Retrieved 2008-03-04. 

External links

• Three Rivers District Council
• Map of the district

Coordinates: 51°38′19.28″N 0°28′9.46″W / 51.6386889°N 0.4692944°W / 51.6386889; -0.4692944