Stroud
Archives and Libraries
- Original source material relating to Stroud, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Stroud area or see them printed on a map.
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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Click here for a list of nearby places.
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)