North Somerset

North Somerset
unitary authority area
Weston-super-Mare Town Hall
North Somerset shown in Somerset
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South West England
Ceremonial county	Somerset
Admin HQ	Weston-super-Mare
Created	1 April 1996
Government
• Type	Unitary Authority
• Leader	Nigel Ashton
• Council	Conservative
• MPs:	John Penrose C, Liam Fox C
Area
• Total	144.66 sq mi (374.68 km²)
Population (mid-2015 est.)
• Total	209,900 (Ranked 80th)
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ISO 3166 code	GB-NSM
Website	http://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/

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North Somerset is a unitary authority area in England. Its area covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset but it is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county. Its administrative headquarters is in the town hall in Weston-super-Mare.

North Somerset borders the local government areas of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, Mendip and Sedgemoor. North Somerset contains the parliamentary constituencies of Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset.

Between 1 April 1974 and 31 March 1996, it was the Woodspring district of the county of Avon (named after Woodspring Priory, an isolated mediaeval church near the coast just north east of Weston-super-Mare). The district of Woodspring was formed from the municipal boroughs of Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon and Portishead urban districts, Long Ashton Rural District, and part of Axbridge Rural District.

Though the government proposed that the new unitary area be known as "North West Somerset" from 1 April 1996, the council voted instead to adopt the name "North Somerset" and so the name "North West Somerset" was never widely used. There remained some legal doubt as to whether the council had validly changed the name to "North Somerset", but in 2005 the council passed a resolution to put the matter beyond doubt.

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