Stratford-on-Avon District
Shown within Warwickshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	West Midlands
Admin. County:	Warwickshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 26th 977.87 km²
Admin. HQ:	Stratford-on-Avon
ONS code:	44UE
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 178th 113,109 116 / 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 which is where the administrative headquarters are located.

The district is mostly rural and covers most of the southern half of Warwickshire. The district also includes the towns of Alcester, Southam, and Shipston-on-Stour.

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 .

parishes and settlements

Other than Stratford-upon-Avon the district includes:

• Admington , Alcester, Alderminster Arrow with Weethley , Aston Cantlow , Atherstone-on-Stour , Avon Dassett ,
• Barcheston and Willington , Barton-on-the-Heath , Bearley , Beaudesert, Bidford-on-Avon, Billesley, Binton , Bishops Itchington , Brailes , 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 , 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 and Arlescote , Watergall , Weethley , Welford-on-Avon , Wellesbourne, Weston-on-Avon , Whatcote , Whichford , Whitchurch, Wilmcote , Wixford , Wolverton, Wootton Wawen, Wormleighton