Horsley
Horsley is a village and civil parish about one and a half miles south-west of the small Cotswold market town of Nailsworth. The origins of the name Horsley are much debated, although it is thought to be derived from the pre-7th-century Old English phrase, "horse-lega", meaning "place of horses".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sharon Loxton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 835 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Horsley, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Martin and The New Lawn.
The New Lawn
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The New Lawn, also known as The Bolt New Lawn for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. It has been the home stadium of National League club Forest Green Rovers since 2006.
Kingscote and Horsley Woods
Forest
Photo: George Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingscote and Horsley Woods is a 43.79-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1966. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 as a Key Wildlife Site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barton End and Nailsworth.
Barton End
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barton End is a hamlet just south of Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England.
Nailsworth
Town
Photo: Maretinevans123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stroud is at the heart of the Five Valleys in the Cotswolds. It is in Gloucestershire, England. There's many fine, beautiful and interesting things to see but it's not "pretty" in the way that similar sized towns in the Cotswolds or Gloucestershire are.
Box
Village
Photo: Jongleur100, Public domain.
Box is a small village in Gloucestershire, England. It is in the civil parish of Minchinhampton, and is located 3 miles south of Stroud and 10 miles west of Cirencester. Minchinhampton is about 1 mile away and Nailsworth is about 1.5 miles away. Box is situated 2 miles northeast of Horsley.
Horsley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Horsley, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.68166° or 51° 40′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.23471° or 2° 14′ 5″ westPopulation
835Elevation
371 feet (113 metres)Open location code
9C3VMQJ8+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 26953351OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2646554Wikidata ID
Q5906367
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Horsley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Horsley”
- Dutch: “Horsley, Gloucestershire”
- French: “Horsley”
- Irish: “Horsley”
- Italian: “Horsley (Gloucestershire)”
- Italian: “Horsley”
- Ladin: “Horsley”
- Persian: “هورسلی، گلاسترشر”
- Polish: “Horsley (Gloucestershire)”
- Polish: “Horsley”
- Portuguese: “Horsley”
- Spanish: “Horsley”
- Swedish: “Horsley, Gloucestershire”
- Swedish: “Horsley”
- Turkish: “Horsley, Gloucestershire”
- Welsh: “Horsley, Swydd Gaerloyw”
- Welsh: “Horsley”
- “Horsley”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Horsley Church of England Primary School and Horsley Village Hall.
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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 “Horsley”. Photo: Sharon Loxton, CC BY-SA 2.0.