Kerrier

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Kerrier District
Shown within UK and Cornwall
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South West England
Admin. County:	Cornwall
Area: - Total	Ranked 106th 473.52 km²
Admin. HQ:	Camborne
ONS code:	15UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 232nd 96,200 203 / km²
Ethnicity:	99.1% White
Politics
Kerrier District Council http://www.kerrier.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Independent
MPs:	Andrew George, Julia Goldsworthy
Civil Parishes

1.Breage 2. Budock 3. Camborne 4. Carharrack 5. Carn Brea 6. Constantine 7. Crowan 8. Cury 9. Germoe 10. Grade-Ruan 11. Gunwalloe 12. Gweek 13. Helston 14. Illogan 15. Landewednack 16. Lanner 17. Mabe 18. Manaccan 19. Mawgan-in-Meneage 20. Mawnan 21. Mullion 22. Porthleven 23. Portreath 24. Redruth 25. St Anthony-in-Meneage 26. St Day 27. St Gluvias 28. St Keverne 29. St Martin-in-Meneage 30. Sithney 31. Stithians 32. Wendron

Kerrier (Cornish: Keryer) is a local government district in Cornwall, England, UK. It is the most southerly district in the United Kingdom, other than the Isles of Scilly. Its council is based in Camborne. Other places in the district include Redruth, Helston. The district contains the Lizard Peninsula.

The district is named after one of the ancient administrative Hundreds of Cornwall, which covered broadly the same area, but did not have a coast on the north, like the modern district. See Kerrier (hundred).

The district was formed on April 1, 1974, as a merger of the borough of Helston, the urban district of Camborne-Redruth and Kerrier Rural District.

Interestingly, Cornish musician Luke Vibert has released a self-titled album under the alias Kerrier District, as a nod to New York musicians Metro Area and a tribute to the place where he grew up.