District Council

District council may refer to:

  • A Town council, a unit of local government in many jurisdictions
  • A branch of the Local government in the United Kingdom:
    • Supervising one of the Districts of England:
      • A Metropolitan borough
      • A Non-metropolitan district
      • A Unitary authority
    • Supervising one of the Principal Areas of Wales
    • Supervising one of the Subdivisions of Scotland
    • Supervising one of the Districts of Northern Ireland
  • One of the District Councils of Hong Kong
  • One of the Districts of New Zealand
  • Council of the District of Columbia, local government of Washington, D.C.
  • A Labour council at a district level

Famous quotes containing the words district and/or council:

    “Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)