Harescombe
Harescombe is a small village in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated 5 miles south of Gloucester. It is thought the name of the village is derived from a combination of the Celtic term "cwm" and the Saxon term "here", thus the full meaning of "Harescombe" would be "the Army's Valley".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 211 residents
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Harescombe, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Church of St John the Baptist.
Edge Common
Protected area
Photo: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edge Common is a 20.47-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. The Common is in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edge and Brookthorpe.
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.
Brookthorpe
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brookthorpe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 194. It has a church called St Swithun's Church.
Whiteshill
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whiteshill is a village in the Cotswolds, situated between Stroud and Gloucester, in Gloucestershire, England and forms part of the Stroud urban area. The parish of Whiteshill and Ruscombe has a population of 1,175. Whiteshill is situated 2 miles south of Harescombe.
Harescombe
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Harescombe, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.79172° or 51° 47′ 30″ northLongitude
-2.23903° or 2° 14′ 21″ westPopulation
211Elevation
230 feet (70 metres)Open location code
9C3VQQR6+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 339519002OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647484Wikidata ID
Q5656909
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Harescombe” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Harescombe”
- Dutch: “Harescombe”
- French: “Harescombe”
- Irish: “Harescombe”
- Italian: “Harescombe”
- Ladin: “Harescombe”
- Persian: “هرزکام”
- Polish: “Harescombe”
- Portuguese: “Harescombe”
- Swedish: “Harescombe”
- Welsh: “Harescombe”
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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 “Harescombe”. Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.