Cotswold District

Coordinates: 51°43′08″N 1°58′05″W / 51.719°N 1.968°W / 51.719; -1.968

Cotswold District
Non-metropolitan district
Cotswold shown within Gloucestershire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South West England
Non-metropolitan county	Gloucestershire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Cirencester
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Cotswold District Council
• Leadership	Alternative - Sec.31 (Conservative)
• MPs	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Area
• Total	449.6 sq mi (1,164.5 km²)
Area rank	20th (of 326)
Population (mid-2014 est.)
• Total	84,637
• Rank	281st (of 326)
• Density	190/sq mi (73/km²)
• Ethnicity	98.8% White
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ONS code	23UC (ONS) E07000079 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SP0221002304
Website	www.cotswold.gov.uk

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 1 April 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.

Eighty per cent of the district lies within the River Thames catchment area, with the Thames itself and several tributaries including the River Windrush and River Leach running through the district. Lechlade in an important point on the river as the upstream limit of navigation. In the 2007 floods in the UK, rivers were the source of flooding of 53 per cent of the locations affected and the Thames at Lechlade reached record levels with over 100 reports of flooding.^[1]

References

↑ Cotswold District Council - Review of the Summer 2007 floods in Cotswold District

Media related to District of Cotswold at Wikimedia Commons

Ceremonial county of Gloucestershire

Unitary authorities	South Gloucestershire

Boroughs or districts	Cheltenham Cotswold Forest of Dean Gloucester Stroud Tewkesbury

Major settlements	Berkeley Bradley Stoke Cheltenham Chipping Campden Chipping Sodbury Cinderford Cirencester Coleford Dursley Fairford Filton Gloucester Kingswood Lechlade Lydney Minchinhampton Mitcheldean Moreton-in-Marsh Nailsworth Newent Northleach Painswick Patchway Stonehouse Stow-on-the-Wold Stroud Tetbury Tewkesbury Thornbury Winchcombe Wotton-under-Edge Yate See also: List of civil parishes in Gloucestershire

Rivers	Bristol Avon Warwickshire Avon Bybrook Boyd Cam Chelt Churn Coln Evenlode Eye Bristol Frome Stroud Frome Hazel Brook Leach Little Avon Lyd Severn Swilgate Thames Trym Windrush Wye

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Districts of South West England

Devon	East Devon Exeter Mid Devon North Devon South Hams Teignbridge Torridge West Devon

Dorset	Christchurch East Dorset North Dorset Purbeck District West Dorset Weymouth and Portland

Gloucestershire	Cheltenham Cotswold District Forest of Dean District Gloucester Stroud District Tewkesbury Borough

Somerset	Mendip Sedgemoor South Somerset Taunton Deane West Somerset

Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Bournemouth Bristol Cornwall Isles of Scilly North Somerset Plymouth Borough of Poole South Gloucestershire Borough of Swindon Torbay Wiltshire

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