Cotswold (district)
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Cotswold District | |
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Shown within Gloucestershire |
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Geography | |
Status: | District |
Region: | South West England |
Admin. County: | Gloucestershire |
Area: - Total |
Ranked 16th 1,164.52 km² |
Admin. HQ: | Cirencester |
ONS code: | 23UC |
Demographics | |
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 280th 83,100 71 / km² |
Ethnicity: | 98.8% White |
Politics | |
Cotswold District Council http://www.cotswold.gov.uk/ |
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Leadership: | Alternative - Sec.31 |
Control: | Conservative |
MP: | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown |
Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire in England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region. Its main town is Cirencester.
It was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the urban district of Cirencester with Cirencester Rural District, North Cotswold Rural District, Northleach Rural District and Tetbury Rural District.
Districts of 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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Counties with multiple districts: Cornwall - Devon - Dorset - Gloucestershire - Somerset - Wiltshire |