Chiltern District

Arms of Chiltern District Council
Arms of Chiltern District Council
Crest	On a Wreath Or and Gules out of a Circlet per pale Gules and Sable charged with six Plates three being manifest a Mount Vert thereon a Wyvern wings expanded Gules and gorged with a Ducal Coronet Or.
Shield	Or on a Mount in base with Chalk Outcrops two Beech Trees in fess their interior leaves merging proper a Chief chequy Argent and Sable.
Motto	Freely We Serve
Badge	On a Bezant environed of a Torse Or and Gules a Mount thereon two Beech Trees as in the arms.
	Granted 10 June 1975

Chiltern District
Chiltern District
Non-metropolitan district
	King George V House, Amersham: Council headquarters, 1986-2020
	Chiltern shown within Buckinghamshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	Buckinghamshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Amersham
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Abolished	31 March 2020
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Chiltern District Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet
Area
• Total	75.81 sq mi (196.35 km2)
Population (2018)
• Total	95,927
• Density	1,300/sq mi (490/km2)
• Ethnicity	91.4% White; 5.5% Asian; 0.6% Black; 2.2% Mixed Race; 0.3% Other; (2,011 Census)
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	11UC (ONS); E07000005 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SU965985

Chiltern District was a local government district of Buckinghamshire in south-central England from 1974 to 2020. It was named after the Chiltern Hills on which the region sits.

The two towns in the district were Amersham, where the council was based, and Chesham. The district also included the villages of Chalfont St Peter, Chalfont St Giles, Little Chalfont, Great Missenden and Prestwood.