Editing Gloucestershire (section)

==Towns and cities==
{{Main|List of places in Gloucestershire}}
{{see also|List of settlements in Gloucestershire by population}}

Gloucestershire has one city and 33 towns:

===Cities===
*[[Gloucester]]

===Towns===
The towns in Gloucestershire are:
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*[[Berkeley, Gloucestershire|Berkeley]]
*[[Bradley Stoke]]
*[[Cheltenham]]
*[[Chipping Campden]]
*[[Chipping Sodbury]]
*[[Cinderford]]
*[[Cirencester]]
*[[Coleford, Gloucestershire|Coleford]]
*[[Dursley]]
*[[Emersons Green]]
*[[Fairford]]
*[[Filton]]
*[[Kingswood, South Gloucestershire|Kingswood]]
*[[Lechlade]]
*[[Lydney]]
*[[Minchinhampton]]
*[[Mitcheldean]]
*[[Moreton-in-Marsh]]
*[[Nailsworth]]
*[[Newent]]
*[[Northleach]]
*[[Painswick]]
*[[Patchway]]
*[[Quedgeley]]
*[[Stonehouse, Gloucestershire|Stonehouse]]
*[[Stow-on-the-Wold]]
*[[Stroud]]
*[[Tetbury]]
*[[Tewkesbury]]
*[[Thornbury, South Gloucestershire|Thornbury]]
*[[Winchcombe]]
*[[Wotton-under-Edge]]
*[[Yate]]
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Suburban town of [[Stroud, Gloucestershire|Stroud]]:
*[[Cainscross]]
Town in [[Monmouthshire]] with suburbs in Gloucestershire:
*[[Chepstow]]

=== Green belt ===
{{main|Avon Green Belt|Gloucester and Cheltenham Green Belt}}
The county has two green belt areas, the first covers the southern area in the South Gloucestershire district, to protect outlying villages and towns between Thornbury and Chipping Sodbury from the [[urban sprawl]] of the [[Bristol Built-up Area|Bristol conurbation]]. The second belt lies around Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Bishop's Cleeve, to afford those areas and villages in between a protection from urban sprawl and further convergence. Both belts intersect with the boundaries of the Cotswolds [[AONB]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy 2011 – 2031 |url=https://jointcorestrategy-my.sharepoint.com/personal/website_jointcorestrategy_onmicrosoft_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fwebsite%5Fjointcorestrategy%5Fonmicrosoft%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2FJoint%20Core%20Strategy%20%28JCS%29%20website%2FHome%2FJCS%20Plan%20Adopted%20Version%2011%20December%202017%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Fwebsite%5Fjointcorestrategy%5Fonmicrosoft%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2FJoint%20Core%20Strategy%20%28JCS%29%20website%2FHome&originalPath=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2ludGNvcmVzdHJhdGVneS1teS5zaGFyZXBvaW50LmNvbS86YjovZy9wZXJzb25hbC93ZWJzaXRlX2pvaW50Y29yZXN0cmF0ZWd5X29ubWljcm9zb2Z0X2NvbS9FVzlMM3NPMk13QkxsRmlycEVScm1Xa0JpM0JNUFRPcDdWbzB6UF9LaVR2ZE9nP3J0aW1lPUQyMmtqRThPMlVn |publisher=Gloucester City, Cheltenham Borough and Tewkesbury Borough |access-date=3 May 2021}}</ref>