North Cotswold Rural District

North Cotswold Rural District

Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 1°42′11″W / 51.989°N 1.703°W / 51.989; -1.703

North Cotswold
Motto: Montes Excelsi Refugio (The high hills for a refuge)
North Cotswold RD (pink) within the administrative county of Gloucestershire. Associated county boroughs of Bristol and Gloucester shown in grey.
Geography
Status Rural district
1951 area 86,203 acres (348.85 km2)
HQ Moreton-in-Marsh
History
Created 1935
Abolished 1974
Succeeded by Cotswold
Demography
1931 population 15,761
1971 population 20,421

North Cotswold was, from 1935 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Gloucestershire, England.[1][2]

Contents

Formation

Under the Local Government Act 1929 county councils were given the duty of reviewing the districts within their county. Gloucestershire contained a large number of very small urban and rural districts, and it was decided to reduce the number by amalgamation. This was carried out by The County of Gloucester Review Order 1935, which came into effect on 1 April 1935. North Cotswold Rural District was formed by the amalgamation of the whole or part of four districts:[1][2]

  • Campden Rural District (less 3 parishes transferred to Stratford-on-Avon Rural District, Warwickshire)
  • Stow on the Wold Urban District
  • Stow on the Wold Rural District (less 2 parishes to Northleach Rural District)
  • Winchcombe Rural District (part only, most passed to Cheltenham Rural District)

Parishes

The district consisted of the following parishes:[1][2]

Coat of arms and motto

North Cotswold Rural District Council was granted armorial bearings by letters patent dated 9 September 1955. The grant consisted of arms and crest, which were blazoned as follows:[3]

Vert a pallet argent over all a fleece Or ringed and banded gules on a chief enarched of the second two mitres also gules, and for a crest, out of a coronet composed of four fleurs-de-lys set upon a rim Or, a swan rousant proper gorged with a ducal coronet pendent therefrom an escutcheon gules charged with a sun gold.

The green field and "enarched" chief or top third of the shield represented the curve of a hill. The fleece was a symbol of the traditional woollen industry of the area. The Latin motto chosen by the council: Montes Excelsi Refugio or "the high hills for a refuge" was adapted from Psalm 104.[4]

Abolition

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which completely reorganised council boundaries throughout England and Wales. North Cotswold RD was merged with four neighbouring districts to form the non-metropolitan district of Cotswold, one of six districts in Gloucestershire.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Youngs, Frederic A, Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 610. ISBN 0901050679. 
  2. ^ a b c "Relationships / unit history of North Cotswold RD". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10097496&c_id=10001043. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  3. ^ Briggs, Geoffrey (1971). Civic and Corporate Heraldry: A Dictionary of Impersonal Arms of England, Wales and N. Ireland. London: Heraldry Today. p. 284. ISBN 0900455217. 
  4. ^ Pine, Leslie Gilbert (1983). A Dictionary of Mottos. London: Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 071009339X. 
  5. ^ Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 51. ISBN 0117508470. 

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