See soorce fer Gloucestershire

[[File:Gloucestershire UK locator map 2010.svg|thumb|200px|Gloucestershire athin Ingland]]

'''Gloucestershire''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-gloucestershire.ogg|ˈ|ɡ|l|ɒ|s|t|ər|ʃ|ər}} {{respell|GLOSS|tər-shər}}) is a [[Coonties o Ingland|coonty]] in [[Sooth Wast Ingland]]. The coonty comprises pairt o the [[Cotswold Hills]], pairt o the flat fertile valley o the [[River Severn]], an the entire [[Forest o Dean]].

The [[coonty toun]] is the [[Ceety status in the Unitit Kinrick|ceety]] o [[Gloucester]], an ither principal touns include [[Cheltenham]], [[Cirencester]], [[Stroud]], an [[Tewkesbury]].

When considered as a [[Ceremonial coonties o Ingland|ceremonial coonty]], Gloucestershire borders the [[Preservit coonties o Wales|preservit coonty]] o [[Gwent (coonty)|Gwent]] in [[Wales]] (nou [[Monmouthshire]]), an in Ingland the ceremonial coonties o [[Herefordshire]], [[Worcestershire]], [[Warwickshire]], [[Oxfordshire]], [[Wiltshire]] an [[Somerset]]. Ceremonially, it includes the aurie covered bi the [[Sooth Gloucestershire]] [[unitary authority]].

Accordin tae a 2002 campaign bi the charity [[Plantlife]], the [[coonty flouer]] o Gloucestershire is the [[Wild Daffodil]].<ref>BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3684291.stm, 5 May 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2006.</ref>

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*[http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6551 Gloucestershire Coonty Cooncil] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316155807/http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6551 |date=2011-03-16 }} Local govrenment wab steid

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