Stroud
Built-up area in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
| Coordinates: | 51.742, -2.227 |
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| OS grid ref: | SO 84 04 |
| Population: | 60,155 |
| Dialling code: | 01453 (Dursley) |
Stroud is a market town in Gloucestershire, set in the steep, wooded valleys at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in England. Its position where fast streams such as the River Frome descend the hills powered a thriving woollen industry, and the town still shows its industrial past in converted mill buildings and the remnants of the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames and Severn Canal.
Nowadays Stroud is celebrated for a lively independent scene - a long‑running farmers’ market, craft shops, galleries, music and festivals - and a creative, environmentally minded community. The surrounding countryside draws walkers and smallholding farmers, so the town combines a strong local economy of makers and traders with easy access to rural recreation.
Postcode districts covering Stroud
Most populated places nearby
- Swindon 22.2 miles
- Gloucester 7.6 miles
- Cheltenham 12.1 miles
- Kingswood and Fishponds 22.5 miles
- Chipping Sodbury 15.8 miles
- Chippenham 20 miles
- Yate 16.2 miles
- Tewkesbury 17.6 miles
- Calne 23.2 miles
- Calne Without 23 miles
- Cirencester 11.2 miles
- Chepstow 20.9 miles
Neighbouring places
- Stroud Central Ward 0.2 miles
- Stroud Farmhill and Paganhill Ward 0.8 miles
- Rodborough Parish 0.8 miles
- Stroud Uplands Ward 0.9 miles
- Cainscross Parish 1 mile
- Stroud Valley Ward 1.1 miles
- Stroud Slade Ward 1.1 miles
- Stroud Trinity Ward 1.2 miles
- Bagpath Built-up area 1.2 miles
- Randwick, Whiteshill and Ruscombe Ward 1.4 miles
- Randwick and Westrip Parish 1.4 miles
- Whiteshill Built-up area 1.5 miles
Example postcodes in Stroud
GL5 1AU, GL5 1DY, GL5 4BA, GL5 4QT, GL5 1QJ, GL5 4GA, GL5 3QY, GL5 4UH, GL5 3BE … See all
Transport links
- Bristol Airport 32.6 miles
- Birmingham International Airport 53.2 miles
- Stroud Railway Station 0.4 miles
- Stonehouse Railway Station 2.3 miles
Hotels in Stroud Ad
Schools in Stroud
- Archway School Secondary
- Cashes Green Primary School Primary
- Foxmoor Primary School Primary
- Gastrells Community Primary School Primary
- Marling School Secondary
- Rodborough Community Primary School Primary
- St Martins Centre (St Roses School) Special
- St Rose's Special School Special
- Stroud High School Secondary
- Stroud Valley Community Primary School Primary
- The Rosary Catholic Primary School Primary
- Uplands Community Primary School Primary
Local points of interest
- The New Lawn Stadium 3 miles
- Cotswold Hills Hill 4.8 miles
- Westonbirt Arboretum Gardens 9.4 miles
- Kingswood Abbey Historic site 10 miles
- Flaxley Abbey Historic site 11.6 miles
- Whaddon Road Stadium 13.4 miles
- Forest of Dean Forest 14.1 miles
- Cheltenham Racecourse Recreation 14.3 miles
- Stowell Park Estate 16.2 miles
- Dyrham Park Historic site 19.2 miles
- Cuckoo Wood Forest 19.9 miles