Editing Gloucester (section)

==Governance==
{{main|Gloucester City Council}}
There are two tiers of local government covering Gloucester, at district (city) and county level: [[Gloucester City Council]] and [[Gloucestershire County Council]]. The [[Quedgeley]] area of the city is a [[civil parish]] with a town council, forming a third tier of local government; the remainder of the city is an [[unparished area]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Mpas |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=28 August 2023 |archive-date=12 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812195643/https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb |url-status=live }}</ref>

===History===
Gloucester was an [[ancient borough]], being treated as a borough from [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|Saxon]] times and being granted its first known borough charter by [[Henry II of England|Henry II]] in 1155. In 1483 the town of Gloucester was given the right to appoint its own magistrates, making it a [[county corporate]], administratively independent from the surrounding county of [[Gloucestershire]]. When the [[Diocese of Gloucester]] was founded in 1541, the town was given the right to call itself a [[City status in the United Kingdom|city]]. The city was reformed to become a [[municipal borough]] in 1836 under the [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835]]. When elected county councils were established in 1889, Gloucester was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a [[county borough]], independent from Gloucestershire County Council.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herbert |first1=N. M. |title=A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4 |date=1988 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |pages=1–4 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol4/pp1-4 |access-date=28 June 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628062036/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol4/pp1-4 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gloucester County Borough |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10061726 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=28 June 2022}}</ref>

[[File:North Warehouse - geograph.org.uk - 6109086.jpg|thumb|right|North Warehouse]]

[[Gloucester Guildhall]] at 23 Eastgate Street was built in 1892 and served as the city's administrative headquarters until 1986, when the council moved to North Warehouse at [[Gloucester Docks]].<ref>{{NHLE|num=1271663|desc=Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street|access-date=28 June 2022|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=City Council moves out – to the docks |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=27 June 2022 |work=Gloucester News |date=11 July 1986 |archive-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922212722/https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 1 April 1974, the modern [[non-metropolitan district|district]] of Gloucester was formed under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], covering the same area as the abolished County Borough of Gloucester.<ref>{{cite book |title=The English Non-Metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972 (Statutory Instrument 1972 No. 2039) |date=1972 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/2039/made |access-date=28 June 2022 |archive-date=18 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218135531/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/2039/made |url-status=live }}</ref> The reforms also saw the city become subordinate to Gloucestershire County Council, losing the independence it had held since 1483. The parish of [[Quedgeley]] was subsequently transferred into Gloucester from [[Stroud District]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Gloucestershire (District Boundaries) Order 1991 (Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 281) |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/281/made |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=28 June 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628210459/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/281/made |url-status=live }}</ref> Quedgeley retains its own parish council, unlike the rest of Gloucester, which is an [[unparished area]]. In 2017, Quedgeley Parish Council changed its name to Quedgeley Town Council, making it a town within a city.<ref name="Quedgeley Town">{{cite news |url=http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/what-s-in-a-name-quedgeley-parish-council-becomes-a-town-council-after-conclusive-vote/story-30294975-detail/story.html |title=What's in a name? Quedgeley Parish Council becomes a town council after conclusive vote |publisher=GloucestershireLive |date=25 April 2017 |access-date=26 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426123052/http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/what-s-in-a-name-quedgeley-parish-council-becomes-a-town-council-after-conclusive-vote/story-30294975-detail/story.html |archive-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>