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Stroud Gloucestershire Coast Map

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Where would you like to go? Use our search bar to search across all our local listings, ideal for finding that nearest spot to visit:

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Want some ideas on where to visit?

Every favourite location must be visited for the first time. Want some ideas, why not check out the below small selection of coastal locations, including beaches, activities, things to see and do, and places to stay and eat:

Place to eat

The Lord John Pub

The Lord John is a Wetherspoon pub in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm.     Read more…
Things to see and do

Stratford Park Outdoor Pool

Stratford Park Outdoor Pool is a spring water-filled outdoor pool, which first opened in 1936. The pool is open during the summer months as an alternative to the indoor pool at the Stratford Park Leisure Centre. Read more…
Things to see and do

Woodchester Park

Woodchester Park, a secluded wooded valley with a ‘lost garden’. Chain of five lakes thread through this delightful 18th and 19th-century landscape park with waymarked trails. Read more…
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Rococo Gardens

Painswick Rococo Gardens were designed in the mid-1700s by Benjamin Hyett after he purchased the house in the 1730s. Rococo describes a period of art fashionable in Europe in the 1700s, identifiable particularly in furniture and architecture and the gardens at Painswick just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire are one of the only surviving examples open to the public. The gardens Read more…
Minchinhampton-Common

Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons

Rolling hills, wide open spaces and biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest rising up above the Stroud Valleys and Severn estuary. Minchinhampton Common is a large (82.7-hectare – 451-acre) area of grassland on the slopes and hilltop. Rodborough Common, 116.0-hectare (287-acre),  is just to the North of Minchinhampton Common and has some great views over the Stroud and the Severn Vale. Read more…
Things to see and do

Uley Long Barrow

Uley Long Barrow, also known as “Hetty Pegler’s Tump”, is a Neolithic burial mound. Although typically described as a long barrow, the mound is actually a transected gallery grave. It is about 180ft (55m) in length and contains a stone built central passage with two chambers on either side and another at the end. The earthen mound is surrounded by Read more…
Things to see and do

Little Fleece Bookshop

Little Fleece Bookshop, a traditional 17th-century building Cotswold house (originally part of a former inn) in the beautiful Cotswold village of Painswick. Read more…
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Museum in the Park

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Closed
Tue
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Wed
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Thu
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Fri
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Sat
11:00 am - 4:30 pm
Sun
11:00 am - 4:30 pm
The Museum in the Park is situated in a Grade II listed 17th Century wool merchant’s mansion house, the museum tells the fascinating story of Stroud’s rich and diverse history. With over 4,000 display artifacts, including dinosaur bones and paintings, there is something to spark the interest of all of our visitors! In addition to the main displays in the Read more…
Things to see and do

Nympsfield Long Barrow

Nympsfield Long Barrow is the remains of a Neolithic burial site or barrow. It lies at the edge of a woods, and is now the location of a picnic site. Nympsfield is one of the earliest examples of a barrow with separate chambers, constructed around 2800 BCE. Read more…
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