Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in south Nottinghamshire, England.

The borough also includes the towns of Bingham and Cotgrave as well as numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

The neighbouring districts are Broxtowe, Nottingham, Gedling, Newark and Sherwood, Melton, Charnwood, North West Leicestershire and Erewash.

The new Rushcliffe district was granted borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.

Most of the borough is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.

[15] From 1982 to 2016 the council was based at Rushcliffe Civic Centre on Pavilion Road in West Bridgford, overlooking Trent Bridge.

[19] South-east of Nottingham, the Rushcliffe boundary splits from the City of Nottingham boundary near the Holme Pierrepont Watersports Centre and then follows the River Trent to near RAF Syerston, which is the most northern part of the district, although Syerston the village itself is in the Newark and Sherwood district.

Rushcliffe is split between an urbanised north-west, containing suburbs of Greater Nottingham that have not been incorporated into the city, and the south and east which is predominantly rural, which stretches to the Leicestershire border.

Villages in the Vale of Belvoir include Redmile, Hickling, Harby, Stathern and Langar.