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Cotswold District

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

Cotswold District
Non-metropolitan district
Cirencester, the administrative centre of the Cotswold District
Cirencester, the administrative centre of the Cotswold District
Cotswold shown within Gloucestershire
Cotswold shown within Gloucestershire
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
RegionSouth West England
Non-metropolitan countyGloucestershire
StatusNon-metropolitan district
Admin HQCirencester
Incorporated1 April 1974
Government
 • TypeNon-metropolitan district council
 • BodyCotswold District Council
 • MPsGeoffrey Clifton-Brown Roz Savage
Area
 • Total449.6 sq mi (1,164.5 km2)
 • Rank20th (of 296)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total91,311
 • Rank260th (of 296)
 • Density200/sq mi (78/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
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 • Ethnic groups
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Religion (2021)
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Time zoneUTC0 (GMT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code23UC (ONS)
E07000079 (GSS)
OS grid referenceSP0221002304

Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region and range of hills. The council is based in the district's largest town of Cirencester. The district also includes the towns of Chipping Campden, Fairford, Lechlade, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Stow-on-the-Wold and Tetbury, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

In 2021 the district had a population of 91,125. The district covers nearly 450 square miles (1,200 km2), with some 80% of the land located within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[2][3] The much larger area referred to as the Cotswolds encompasses nearly 800 square miles, spanning five counties: Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire.[4][5] This large Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty had a population of 139,000 in 2016.[6]

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 is 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.[7]

The neighbouring districts are South Gloucestershire, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, Wychavon, Stratford-on-Avon, West Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, Swindon and Wiltshire.

  1. ^ a b UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Cotswold Local Authority (E07000079)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  2. ^ "About the Council - Cotswold District Council". cotswold.gov.uk.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Cotswolds.com - The Official Cotswolds Tourist Information Site". Cotswolds.
  5. ^ "In Deep: Idyllic England in the Cotswolds | Butterfield & Robinson". 14 August 2017.
  6. ^ https://www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NEW-FACT-SHEET-6-v1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ "Cotswold District Council - Review of the Summer 2007 floods in Cotswold District". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.

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