HMS Cotswold was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which served in World War II.

Cotswold was ordered on 11 April 1939 under the 1939 War Emergency Build Programme as job number 1836.

She was adopted by the civil community of North Cotswold Urban District in Gloucestershire as part of Warship Week in 1942, with the fundraising led by Clare Spurgin.

[2] She earned battle honours during the Second World War for the North Sea 1941–1945, where she spent the majority of her service.

In June 1944 she formed part of the Naval escort force in support of the Normandy Landings.