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Stroud

Archives & Libraries
Churches
Description & Travel
Directories

Gazetteers
Historical Geography
Maps
Names, Personal

Archives and Libraries

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

Churches

Anglican
Holy Trinity, Stroud, Church of England
St Alban, Stroud, Church of England
St Lawrence, Stroud, Church of England

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Stroud area or see them printed on a map.

Description and Travel

You can see pictures of Stroud which are provided by:

Directories

Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1830 for Stroud, by Ted Wildy.

Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for Stroud from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

You can see the administrative areas in which Stroud has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SO840050 (Lat/Lon: 51.74347, -2.233136), Stroud which are provided by:

This place shown on a Google map.
Google Streetview
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
OpenStreetMap
Bing (was Multimap)
OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
Elgin Road Works
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
All places within the same township/parish shown on a Google / Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on a Google / Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on a Google / Openstreetmap map.

Names, Personal

Names from "Notes and Recollections of Stroud", 1779-1873 (745 entries) compiled by Ted Wildy from the book by Paul Hawkins Fisher. This book was first published in 1871 and re-printed in 1986 by Alan Sutton Publishing ISBN 0 862993 16 4 (paperback)