Stratford-on-Avon District
The council is based in Stratford-upon-Avon and the district, which is predominantly rural, also includes the towns of Alcester, Henley-in-Arden, Shipston-on-Stour and Southam, and the large villages of Bidford-on-Avon, Studley and Wellesbourne, plus numerous other smaller villages and hamlets and surrounding rural areas.The district covers the more sparsely populated southern part of Warwickshire, and contains nearly half the county's area.The district includes part of the Cotswolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[9] The whole district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.[20] The council is based at Elizabeth House on Church Street in Stratford.
Stratford-upon-AvonStratford (disambiguation)Non-metropolitan districtRiver AvonWarwickshireSovereign stateConstituent countryRegionWest MidlandsAdministrative countyManuela PerteghellaJeremy WrightRanked 169thEthnic groupsReligionno religionHinduismJudaismSikhismBuddhismTime zoneGreenwich Mean TimeBritish Summer TimeONS codelocal government districtAlcesterHenley-in-ArdenShipston-on-StourSouthamBidford-on-AvonStudleyWellesbourneCotswoldsArea of Outstanding Natural BeautyWarwickSolihullBromsgroveRedditchWychavonWorcestershireCotswoldGloucestershireWest OxfordshireCherwellOxfordshireWest NorthamptonshireLocal Government Act 1972Shipston-on-Stour Rural DistrictSoutham Rural DistrictHockley HeathMunicipal Boroughrural districtLiberal DemocratLeaderChief ExecutiveLiberal DemocratsConservativeIndependentVoting system4 May 2023district-levelCounty-levelWarwickshire County Councilcivil parishes2023 electionNo overall controlleaders of the councilStratford-on-Avon District Council electionscouncillorsNFU MutualQueen Elizabeth The Queen MotherList of civil parishes in Warwickshireparish meetingpost townsAdmingtonAlderminsterArdens GraftonArlescoteAston CantlowAtherstone-on-StourAvon DassettBarchestonBarton-on-the-HeathBearleyBeaudesertBillesleyBintonBishops ItchingtonBrailesBurmingtonBurton DassettButlers MarstonChadshuntChapel AscoteCharlecoteCheringtonChesterton and KingstonClaverdonClifford Chambers and MilcoteCombrookCompton VerneyCompton WynyatesCoughtonDorsingtonEttingtonExhallFarnboroughFenny ComptonFulbrookGaydonGreat AlneGreat WolfordHalfordHampton LucyHarburyHaselorHoningtonIdlicoteIlmingtonKinetonKinwartonLadbrokeLangleyLighthorneLighthorne HeathLittle Compton