Gloucestershire

**Gloucestershire**


Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin	Historic
Region:	South West England
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 16th 3,150 km² Ranked 17th 2,653 km²
Admin HQ:	Gloucester
ISO 3166-2:	GB-GLS
ONS code:	23
NUTS 3:	UKK13
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 25th 823,500 261 / km² Ranked 21st 575,400
Ethnicity:	97.3% White
Politics
Gloucestershire County Council http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
Executive	Conservative
Members of Parliament	Roger Berry Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Parmjit Dhanda David Drew Mark Harper Martin Horwood Doug Naysmith Dan Norris Laurence Robertson Steve Webb
Districts
Gloucester Tewkesbury Cheltenham Cotswold Stroud Forest of Dean South Gloucestershire (Unitary)

Gloucestershire (pronounced [ˈglɒstəʃə]; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. The county includes part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.

The county town is Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, and Tewkesbury.

Gloucestershire borders the county of Gwent in Wales, and in England the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol.

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Gloucestershire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added^[1]	Agriculture^[2]	Industry^[3]	Services^[4]
1995	5,771	196	1,877	3,698
2000	8,163	148	2,677	5,338
2003	10,617	166	2,933	7,517

↑ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
↑ includes hunting and forestry
↑ includes energy and construction
↑ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

Antiquities and Other Places of interest

Berkeley Castle, an example of a feudal stronghold.
Beverston Castle
Calcot Manor
Forest of Dean
Hailes Abbey
Owlpen Manor
Sudeley Castle
Tewkesbury Abbey
Tyndale Monument
Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Slimbridge

Gloucestershire Media

Gloucestershire within England
Gloucestershire numbered districts
Atlas created by cartographer Christopher Saxton in 1576 as part of his 'Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales'. Contains hand-written marginal notes.
A campus of the University of Gloucestershire
Parish Church of St. Mary, Fairford
Gloucester cathedral west front
Aerial photo of Sudeley Castle
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Castle icon in SVG vector format