Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area

The Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area or Blackwater Valley Conurbation or Aldershot Urban Area is the name used by the ONS to refer to the loose conurbation on the border between Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire in England. They give it a population of 252,937 in 2011^[1] up by around 4% from the 2001 figure of 243,344.^[2] This makes it the 29th largest built up area in England and Wales. The conurbation is known by some particularly when referring to Hart District and Surrey Heath as the Camberley Urban Area.

The area was given the following subdivisions in the 2011 census:^[3]

Several continuous villages form part of the conurbation, including Ash, Cove, Deepcut, Hale, Hawley and Tongham.

The wider Agglomeration which includes the towns of Fleet, Lightwater and Bagshot had a population of 311,232 in 2011.^[4]

Much of the conurbation is part of the Aldershot Parliamentary Constituency. This includes most of the area west of the River Blackwater minus Farnham, Yateley and Sandhurst.

The urban area also forms a major part of the London commuter belt and is also known as the Blackwater Valley Conurbation, named after the primary local river. It adjoins the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area at Sandhurst making an even larger conurbation which the ONS does not consider one unit.

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Coordinates: 51°14′N 0°45′W / 51.24°N 0.75°W / 51.24; -0.75

London commuter belt
Home counties	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Essex Hertfordshire Kent Surrey
Urban areas	Greater London Built-up Area Reading/Wokingham Urban Area Southend Urban Area Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area Luton/Dunstable Urban Area High Wycombe Urban Area Medway Towns Urban Area
Cities and towns (100k+)	Chelmsford Crawley Guildford High Wycombe London Luton Reading Slough Southend-on-Sea
Towns (25k–99k)	Aldershot Ashford, Surrey Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Billericay Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Bracknell Brentwood Burgess Hill Camberley Canvey Island Chatham Cheshunt Dartford Dunstable Epsom Ewell Earley Farnborough Farnham Fleet Gillingham Gravesend Grays Harlow Harpenden Hatfield Hemel Hempstead Horsham Hitchin Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Loughton Maidenhead Maidstone Rayleigh, Essex Redhill Rochester Royal Tunbridge Wells Sittingbourne St Albans Stevenage Strood Sunbury-on-Thames Tonbridge Ware Watford Welwyn Garden City Wickford Windsor Woking Wokingham Woodley
Towns (10k–25k)	Addlestone Amersham Ashtead Baldock Beaconsfield Berkhamsted Broxbourne Buckhurst Hill Bushey Chertsey Chesham Chigwell Corringham Croxley Green Dorking East Grinstead East Malling Englefield Green Epping Frimley Frogmore Godalming Hadleigh Haywards Heath Hertford Hoddesdon Horley Houghton Regis Knaphill Marlow Potters Bar Reigate Rickmansworth Rochford Sandhurst Sevenoaks Snodland Shepperton South Benfleet Southborough, Kent Staines-upon-Thames Stanford-le-Hope Stanwell Swanley Thundersley Tilbury Tring Waltham Abbey Waltham Cross Yateley