Rutland

Rutland
Ceremonial county
Oakham Buttercross; Rutland Water and Normanton Church; Uppingham High Street East.
Rutland within England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Established	1 April 1997
Established by	Local Government Commission for England
Origin	Ancient
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time)
Members of Parliament	Alicia Kearns (C)
Police	Leicestershire Police
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant	Sarah Furness
High Sheriff	Richard Cole
Area	[convert: needs a number]
• Ranked	of 48
Population (2005 est.)	37,300
• Ranked	47th of 48
Density	95/km2 (250/sq mi)
Ethnicity	94.8% White, 1.8% Mixed, 1.5% Asian, 1.3% Black, 0.5% Other
Unitary authority
Council	Rutland County Council
Executive
Admin HQ	Oakham
Area	381.8 km2 (147.4 sq mi)
• Ranked	105th of 326
Population	38,600
• Ranked	323rd of 326
Density	101/km2 (260/sq mi)
ISO 3166-2	GB-RUT
GSS code	E06000017
ITL	UKF22
Website	www.rutland.gov.uk
Districts
Districts	N/A

Rutland is the smallest county of England. It is surrounded by the counties of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.

The main towns of Rutland are Oakham and Uppingham.

In the mid-1970s, it was the inspiration for Eric Idle's TV show, Rutland Weekend Television.

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1. ↑ "The High Sheriff of Rutland". The High Sheriff of Rutland. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
2. ↑ "Rutland Demographics | Age, Ethnicity, Religion, Wellbeing". Varbes. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2023.