Carrick
| Carrick District | |
|---|---|
 Shown within Cornwall | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | South West England |
| Admin. County: | Cornwall |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 108th 461.00 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Truro |
| ONS code: | 15UC |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 253rd 88,911 193 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 98.7% White |
| Politics | |
| Carrick District Council http://www.carrick.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Liberal Democrats |
| MPs: | Candy Atherton, Matthew Taylor |
The district was created on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the city of Truro, the boroughs of Falmouth and Penryn, and Truro Rural District. It is named after the Carrick Roads, an inlet near Falmouth that the rivers Percuil, Penryn and Fal drain into.
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| Districts of England - South West England | |
| Bath and North East Somerset | Bournemouth | Bristol | Caradon | Carrick | Cheltenham | Christchurch | Cotswold | East Devon | East Dorset | Exeter | Forest of Dean | Gloucester | Isles of Scilly | Kennet | Kerrier | Mendip | Mid Devon | North Cornwall | North Devon | North Dorset | North Somerset | North Wiltshire | Penwith | Plymouth | Poole | Purbeck | Restormel | Salisbury | Sedgemoor | South Gloucestershire | South Hams | South Somerset | Stroud | Swindon | Taunton Deane | Teignbridge | Tewkesbury | Torbay | Torridge | West Devon | West Dorset | West Somerset | West Wiltshire | Weymouth and Portland | |
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Administrative counties with multiple districts: Cornwall - Devon - Dorset - Gloucestershire - Somerset - Wiltshire |
Carrick is also the name of a town in Tasmania, Australia.