SLAD, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Slad, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Gazetteers

• "SLADE, a chapelry in the parishes of Painswick and Stroud, county Gloucester, 2 miles N.E. of Stroud. The village, which is small, is situated in a vale, through which passes the road to Cheltenham, and on the bank of Slade Water is a cloth factory, one of the largest in the W. of England. An Episcopal chapel was erected in 1831."
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Historical Geography

• "Ecclesiastical parish formed from Painswick, 1844."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)