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Hale End and Highams Park South

electoral ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ140381452 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hale End and Highams Park South is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The Hale End and Highams Park ward was first used in the 2002 elections and elected three councillors to Waltham Forest London Borough Council. In 2022, the ward was renamed and lost one seat.

Geography

The ward is named after the areas of Hale End and Highams Park.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hale End and Highams Park South” as electoral ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hale, Highams and Park.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hale, Highams and Park providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140381452. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hale End and Highams Park South” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.