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 (2010 est.)
- Total	83,500
- Rank	278th (of 326)
- Density	185.7/sq mi (71.7/km2)
- Ethnicity	98.8% White
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
- Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ONS code	23UC
OS grid reference	SP0221002304
Website	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

1. ^ Cotswold District Council - Review of the Summer 2007 floods in Cotswold District