Gloucestershire
Stroud District
Kingswood

Kingswood

Kingswood is a town and civil parish within the Stroud district of , England. It is southwest of and has a population of 1,290, increasing to 1,395 at the 2011 Census.
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  • Type: Village with 1,250 residents
  • Description: village in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Kingswood, Gloucestershire”, “Kingswood, Stroud”, and “Kingswood, Stroud District”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kingswood Abbey and Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School.

Historic building
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was a Cistercian abbey, located in the village of Kingswood near , , . The abbey was demolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and all that remains is the gatehouse, a Grade 1 listed building.

School
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Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is an academy school near , , England, for ages 11 to 18. It has been ranked as the 4th best non-fee paying school in the South-West and 250th best in the whole country.

Movie theater
is a cinema in , , . The cinema hosts one screen, with a laser projector. Originally opening in 1913, it has been under the management of The Electric Picture House Cinema Ltd. since 2014.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wotton-under-Edge and Alderley.

Photo: Lobsterthermidor, CC0.
is a market town of 5,600 people in near the southern end of the . It is equidistant from and , , and , a few miles from the M4 and M5.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district of , England, about fourteen miles southwest of Stroud and two miles south of .

Village
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is a village in , England. It was transferred from the county of Avon in 1991 and is now in . The village forms part of the civil parish of . is situated 2 miles southeast of Kingswood.

Kingswood

Latitude
51.62437° or 51° 37′ 28″ north
Longitude
-2.3679° or 2° 22′ 4″ west
Population
1,250
Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB KSW
Open location code
9C3VJJFJ+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 16838631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2645417
Wiki­data ID
Q1611353
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Kingswood” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Kingswood”
  • Dutch: “Kingswood”
  • French: “Kingswood”
  • Irish: “Kingswood”
  • Italian: “Kingswood”
  • Ladin: “Kingswood (Gloucestershire)”
  • Ladin: “Kingswood”
  • Persian: “کینگزوود، استراود دیستریکت”
  • Polish: “Kingswood”
  • Portuguese: “Kingswood”
  • Spanish: “Kingswood”
  • Swedish: “Kingswood, Stroud”
  • Swedish: “Kingswood”
  • Turkish: “Kingswood, Stroud District”
  • Volapük: “Kingswood”
  • Welsh: “Kingswood, Swydd Gaerloyw”
  • Welsh: “Kingswood”
  • “Kingswood”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kingswood”. Photo: James Purkiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.