query: located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entity alkington
supports: South West England is one of nine official regions of England. It is the largest in area, covering and the counties of Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, as well as the Isles of Scilly. Five million people live in South West England. Alkington is a civil parish in the district of Stroud , Gloucestershire . It had a population of 638 in the 2001 census , increasing to 688 at the 2011 census . There is no Alkington village , the parish consists of various hamlets , including Woodford , Newport and Lower Wick . The parish adjoins the Stroud parishes of Ham and Stone to the west ; Hamfallow to the north ; Stinchcombe to the north - east ; North Nibley to the east . The South Gloucestershire parishes of Charfield and Tortworth lie to the south and south - west respectively . Alkington was in Thornbury Rural District until the RDC was abolished in 1974 . The greater part was transferred into the new county of Avon , as part of the new district of Northavon but a group of parishes in the north of the district , around Berkeley , wished not to transfer into the new county , but chose instead to remain with Gloucestershire , under the new Stroud District Council . These were the parishes of Hinton , Hamfallow , Ham and Stone , Alkington , and Berkeley itself . With the demise of Avon , in 1996 , Alkington remained with the main county of Gloucestershire . Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and county in South West England with an estimated population of 449,300 in 2016. It is England's sixth and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, and the most populous city in Southern England after London. The city borders the Unitary Authority areas of North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the historic cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain (which lies in the North Atlantic) in its centre and south; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government. Gloucestershire (; abbreviated Glos.) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean. Gloucester is a city and district in southwest England, the county city of Gloucestershire. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the southwest. Lower Wick is a small hamlet located in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is situated about five miles south west of Dursley, eighteen miles southwest of Gloucester and fifteen miles northeast of Bristol. Lower Wick is within the civil parish of Alkington. A parish is a church territorial unit constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor (its association with the parish church remaining paramount). The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and north-west, Herefordshire to the north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east. The River Severn (Welsh: "Afon Hafren", Latin: "Sabrina") is the longest river in the United Kingdom, at about . It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, close to the Ceredigion/Powys border near Llanidloes, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales. It then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, with the county towns of Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester on its banks. With an average discharge of at Apperley, Gloucestershire, the Severn is the greatest river in terms of water flow in England and Wales. In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. It is an administrative parish, in contrast to an ecclesiastical parish. Dursley is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is under the northeast flank of Stinchcombe Hill, and about 3 miles (6 km) southeast of the River Severn. The town is adjacent to Cam which, though a village, is a community in its own right.
candidates: banks bristol ceredigion district east england forest gloucester gloucestershire hamlet hill north somerset northwest of river scotland shrewsbury shropshire somerset south south west england southwest united kingdom wales west wick worcester
answer: south west england