Stratford-on-Avon District

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

The district is named "Stratford-on-Avon" unlike its main town of Stratford-upon-Avon where the district council is based.

The district is mostly rural and covers most of the southern half of Warwickshire. As well as Stratford, other significant places in the district includes the towns of Alcester, Southam, Shipston-on-Stour and Henley-in-Arden, and the large villages of Bidford-on-Avon, Studley and Wellesbourne, plus numerous other smaller villages and hamlets.

It borders the Warwickshire districts of Warwick to the north, and Rugby to the north-east. It also borders the neighbouring counties of the West Midlands, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire.

History

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the municipal 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.

Politics

Elections to the district council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 53 seats on the council being elected at each election. The Conservative party has controlled the council for most of the time since the first election in 1973, and recently has had a majority since the 2003 Stratford-on-Avon Council election, 2003 election. As a result of the 2019 Stratford-on-Avon District Council election, last election in 2019 the Conservatives had 20 councillors, the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats had 11, Independent (politician), independents had 4 and the Green Party of England and Wales, Green Party has one. The council was due to merge in 2024 with neighbouring Warwick District Council. However in April 2022 the merger was scrapped, with Councillor Day (Warwick Leader) accusing Councillor Jefferson (Stratford Leader) of writing to Government of the United Kingdom, Central Government behind his back, asking for more time for the merge to take place.

Parishes and settlements

Other than Stratford-upon-Avon the district includes:

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

See also

*List of wards in Stratford district by population

References

External links

Stratford-on-Avon District Council YouTube channel

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Non-metropolitan districts of Warwickshire