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Medina
Motto: Floreat Medina (May Medina flourish)
Geography
Status non-metropolitan district, borough
1974 area 28,949 acres (117.15 km2)
HQ Newport
History
Created 1974
Abolished 1995
Succeeded by Isle of Wight Council
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Demography
1973 population 64,790
1992 population 72,000
The Arms of Medina Borough Council

Medina was a non-metropolitan district with the status of a borough on the Isle of Wight in England from 1974 to 1995.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the municipal boroughs of Newport and Ryde along with the urban district of Cowes. It was one of two districts on the Island formed in 1974 - the other was South Wight.

"Medina" was an older name for Newport which has been preserved in the River Medina.

Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, the borough was abolished on 1 April 1995, when a single Isle of Wight Council replaced the Isle of Wight County Council and the island's two district councils.

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