Swale

Borough of Swale
Shown within Kent
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Kent
Area: - Total	Ranked 126th 373.40 km²
Admin. HQ:	Sittingbourne
ONS code:	29UM
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 147th 125,621 336 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.1% White
Politics
Swale Borough Council http://www.swale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Hugh Robertson, Derek Wyatt

Swale is a local government district in Kent, England. Its council is based in Sittingbourne. The borough is named for the narrow channel called The Swale, possibly named because of the low-lying swampland on either side (see below), that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.

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Districts of England - South East England
Adur \| Arun \| Ashford \| Aylesbury Vale \| Basingstoke and Deane \| Bracknell Forest \| Brighton and Hove \| Canterbury \| Cherwell \| Chichester \| Chiltern \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Eastbourne \| East Hampshire \| Eastleigh \| Elmbridge \| Epsom and Ewell \| Fareham \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Hart \| Hastings \| Havant \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Lewes \| Maidstone \| Medway \| Mid Sussex \| Milton Keynes \| Mole Valley \| New Forest \| Oxford \| Portsmouth \| Reading \| Reigate and Banstead \| Rother \| Runnymede \| Rushmoor \| Sevenoaks \| Shepway \| Slough \| Southampton \| South Bucks \| South Oxfordshire \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Swale \| Tandridge \| Test Valley \| Thanet \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Vale of White Horse \| Waverley \| Wealden \| West Berkshire \| West Oxfordshire \| Winchester \| Windsor and Maidenhead \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing \| Wycombe
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Berkshire - Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex

A swale is also a low portion of land that is often wet. It is often deliberately contoured into the land for storm water management. Eavestroughs empty into swales which direct the rainwater away from building foundations. The swales allows the rainwater to soak into the ground. Swales are often placed at property line boundaries.


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