Place:Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England

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NameStroud District
TypeDistrict municipality
Coordinates51.75°N 2.22°W
Located inGloucestershire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoNailsworth, Gloucestershire, Englandurban district from which it was formed in 1974
Stroud, Gloucestershire, Englandurban district from which it was formed in 1974
Dursley Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandrural district from which it was formed in 1974
Stroud Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandrural district from which it was formed in 1974
Gloucester Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandrural district from which it was formed in 1974
Sodbury Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandrural district from which it was formed in 1974
Thornbury Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandrural district from which it was formed in 1974

Image:Districts of Gloucestershire wikipedia.png Stroud District is numbered 5 on this map.

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Stroud District is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after its largest town, Stroud, and has its administrative headquarters in Ebley Mill, in the Ebley area on the outskirts of the town.

The district is mixed and consists of part of the Cotswolds and the Vale of Berkeley, an area of the flat, fertile valley of the River Severn. The town of Stroud is by some way the largest in the area. The southern portion of the district is served mostly by its own market towns, chief among which are Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974, by a merger of

The area is rich in Iron Age and Roman remnants and is of particular interest to archaeologists for its Neolithic burial grounds, of which there are over 100. Much of its wealth was built on the cloth industry during the Victorian era, and its many mills, most of which are now listed buildings, survive as testament to this.

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