Kingswood (borough)

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Kingswood
The arms of Kingswood Borough Council
Administration
Status: Borough
HQ: Kingswood
History
Created: 1974
Abolished: 1996
Succeeded by: South Gloucestershire
Kingswood in Avon: 1974-1996

Kingswood was a non-metropolitan district of the County of Avon, England from 1974 to 1996.

It was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Kingswood and Mangotsfield urban districts with Warmley Rural District from the administrative county of Gloucestershire. In 1987 the district was granted borough status. It was merged in 1996 with the district of Northavon to form part of the new unitary South Gloucestershire.