In the county of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire County Council shares responsibility for governance with six District Councils. Two of the district councils, Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council are urban in nature and the other four, Cotswold District Council, Forest of Dean District Council, Stroud District Council and North Gloucestershire Borough Council are generally rural in character (Figure 1). The Public Parks and Gardens in the two urban areas have been described in previous articles in ‘The Wider View’ (the GGLT journal, published annually between 2020 and 2024) and this article describes those in the four rural districts.
