Painswick
Painswick is a town and civil parish in the Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England. Originally the town grew from the wool trade, but it is now best known for its parish church's yew trees and the local Painswick Rococo Garden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,760 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Painswick, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Painswick Town Hall and Church of St Mary.
Painswick Town Hall
Public building
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Painswick Town Hall is a municipal building in Victoria Square, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England. The building, which is used as an events venue and also as the offices of Painswick Parish Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edge and Slad.
Edge
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edge is a village in the civil parish of Painswick, Gloucestershire, England. The village is situated in an area of the Cotswolds that falls within the Stroud District.
Slad
Village
Photo: Anthony Eden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Slad is a village in Gloucestershire, England, in the Slad Valley about 2 miles from Stroud on the B4070 road from Stroud to Birdlip. Slad was the home of Laurie Lee, whose novel Cider with Rosie is a description of growing up in the village from his arrival at the age of three in 1917. Slad is situated 1½ miles south of Painswick.
Sheepscombe
Village
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheepscombe is a small village in the civil parish of Painswick, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Sheepscombe is located some 6.5 miles south-east of the city of Gloucester, 6 miles north-east of the town of Stroud, and 1.5 miles east of the village of Painswick. Sheepscombe is situated 1½ miles east of Painswick.
Painswick
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Painswick, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.78574° or 51° 47′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.19472° or 2° 11′ 41″ westPopulation
1,760Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)Open location code
9C3VQRP4+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 26954149OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2640678Wikidata ID
Q1235905
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Painswick” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Painswick”
- Basque: “Painswick”
- Cebuano: “Painswick”
- Chinese: “佩恩斯威克”
- Dutch: “Painswick”
- French: “Painswick”
- German: “Painswick”
- Irish: “Painswick”
- Italian: “Painswick”
- Japanese: “ペインスウィック”
- Ladin: “Painswick”
- Latin: “Painswick”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Painswick”
- Persian: “پاینزویک”
- Polish: “Painswick”
- Portuguese: “Painswick”
- Romanian: “Painswick”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاینزویک”
- Spanish: “Painswick”
- Swedish: “Painswick”
- Turkish: “Painswick”
- Welsh: “Painswick”
- “Painswick”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Painswick Community Library and Chapel of Our Lady and Saint Therese.
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