North Cotswold was, from 1935 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Gloucestershire, England.

This was carried out by The County of Gloucester Review Order 1935, which came into effect on 1 April 1935.

The grant consisted of arms and crest, which were blazoned as follows:[3] Vert a pallet argent over all a fleece Or ringed and banded gules on a chief enarched of the second two mitres also gules, and for a crest, out of a coronet composed of four fleurs-de-lys set upon a rim Or, a swan rousant proper gorged with a ducal coronet pendent therefrom an escutcheon gules charged with a sun gold.The green field and "enarched" chief or top third of the shield represented the curve of a hill.

The Latin motto chosen by the council: Montes Excelsi Refugio or "the high hills for a refuge" was adapted from Psalm 104.

[4] The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which completely reorganised council boundaries throughout England and Wales.