South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire is a unitary district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire in South West England. The district was created in 1996, when the county of Avon was abolished, by the merger of former area of the districts of Kingswood and Northavon. The district borders the City and County of Bristol, the Bath and North East Somerset unitary district and the shire counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. South Gloucestershire also exist... more

South Gloucestershire is a unitary district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire in South West England. The district was created in 1996, when the county of Avon was abolished, by the merger of former area of the districts of Kingswood and Northavon. The district borders the City and County of Bristol, the Bath and North East Somerset unitary district and the shire counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. South Gloucestershire also existed from 1950 to 1983 as the name of a roughly coterminous Parliamentary constituency, South Gloucestershire. Its MPs were in turn Tony Crosland, Frederick Corfield and John Cope. The constituency of Northavon now covers most of South Gloucestershire with Liberal Democrat Steve Webb MP representing the area. Until 1881, the 61st Regiment of Foot was classified as The South Gloucestershire Regiment when it merged with the 28th Regiment to form The Gloucestershire Regiment. In the 2001 census, the population of South Gloucestershire was estimated... less