Stratford-on-Avon (district)

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Stratford-on-Avon District
Shown within Warwickshire Warwickshire within England
Geography
Status:	Shire district
Region:	West Midlands
Admin. County:	Warwickshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 26th 977.87 km²
Admin. HQ:	Stratford-upon-Avon
ONS code:	44UE
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 165th 119,000 122 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.7% White
Politics
Stratford-on-Avon District Council http://www.stratford.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	John Maples, James Plaskitt

Stratford-on-Avon is a local government district of southern Warwickshire in England.

The district is named "Stratford-on-Avon" to distinguish it from its main town of Stratford-upon-Avon where the district council is based, although this name often causes confusion [1].

The district is mostly rural and covers most of the southern half of Warwickshire. As well as Stratford, the district also includes the towns of Alcester, Southam, and Shipston-on-Stour, and the large villages of Studley and Wellesbourne.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, Alcester Rural District, Shipston-on-Stour Rural District, Southam Rural District and a majority of Stratford-upon-Avon Rural District.

[edit] Parishes and settlements

Other than Stratford-upon-Avon the district includes:

• Admington, Alcester, Alderminster, Ardens Grafton, Arlescote, Arrow, Aston Cantlow, Atherstone-on-Stour, Avon Dassett,
• Barcheston and Willington, Barton-on-the-Heath, Bearley, Beaudesert, Bidford-on-Avon, Billesley, Binton, Bishops Itchington, Brailes, Broom, Burmington, Burton Dassett, Butlers Marston
• Chadshunt, Chapel Ascote, Charlecote, Cherington and Stourton, Chesterton and Kingston, Claverdon, Clifford Chambers and Milcote, Combroke, Compton Verney, Compton Wynyates, Coughton
• Dorsington
• Ettington, Exhall
• Farnborough, Fenny Compton, Fulbrook
• Gaydon, Great Alne, Great Wolford
• Halford, Hampton Lucy, Harbury, Haselor, Henley-in-Arden, Hodnell and Wills Pastures, Honington
• Idlicote, Ilmington
• Kineton, Kinwarton
• Ladbroke, Langley, Lighthorne, Lighthorne Heath, Little Compton, Little Wolford, Long Compton, Long Itchington, Lower Shuckburgh, Loxley, Luddington, Long Marston
• Milcote, Moreton Morrell, Morton Bagot
• Napton-on-the-Hill, Newbold Pacey
• Old Stratford and Drayton, Oldberrow, Oversley Green, Oxhill
• Pillerton Hersey, Pillerton Priors, Preston Bagot, Preston-on-Stour, Priors Hardwick, Priors Marston
• Quinton
• Radbourne, Radway, Ratley and Upton
• Salford Priors, Sambourne, Shipston-on-Stour, Shotteswell, Snitterfield, Southam, Spernall, Stockton, Stoneton, Stourton and Cherington, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stretton-on-Fosse, Studley, Sutton-under-Brailes
• Tanworth-in-Arden, Temple Grafton, Tidmington, Tredington, Tysoe
• Ufton, Ullenhall, Upper Shuckburgh, Warmington, Watergall, Weethley, Welford-on-Avon, Wellesbourne, Weston-on-Avon, Whatcote, Weethley, Whichford, Whitchurch, Wilmcote, Wixford, Wolverton, Wootton Wawen, Wormleighton