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North Wiltshire
North
Wiltshire
was a
local government district
in
Wiltshire, England
, formed on 1
April 1974
, by a merger of the
municipal boroughs
of
Calne
,
Chippenham
, and
Malmesbury
along with
Calne and Chippenham Rural District
,
Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Rural District
and
Malmesbury Rural District
. It shared its name with the
North Wiltshire parliamentary constituency
, the
boundaries
of which were coterminous with that of the district until
1997
.
The
district council
was based at Monkton
Park
, Chippenham.
The district was abolished on 1
April 2009
as part of the
2009 structural changes to local government in England
, when its functions were taken over by the new
Wiltshire Council
unitary authority
.