West Wiltshire

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West Wiltshire District
Shown within non-metropolitan Wiltshire
Area
• 2009	516.92 km2 (Ranked 96th)
Population
• 2009	?
• Ethnicity	98.1% White
History
• Created	1 April 1974
• Abolished	1 April 2009
• Succeeded by	Wiltshire Council
Status	District
ONS code	46UF
Government	West Wiltshire District Council
• Type	Leader & Committees, later Leader & Cabinet
• HQ	Trowbridge
Contained within
• Region	South West England
• Admin. County	Wiltshire

West Wiltshire was a local government district in Wiltshire, England, between 1974 and 2009, when it was superseded by the new Wiltshire unitary area.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, further to the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the former urban districts of Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury, along with Bradford and Melksham Rural District and the Warminster and Westbury Rural District.^[1] There were five towns in the district – Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury – each surrounded by rural parishes. About two-thirds of the district's population was in those towns.

The district council was based at purpose-built offices in Bradley Road, Trowbridge. It was abolished on 1 April 2009 as part of the structural changes to local government in England, when its functions were taken over by the new Wiltshire unitary authority.