Harescombe

Harescombe is a small village in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated 5 miles south of Gloucester. The village rests at the foot of the well-known range of the Cotswolds called the Haresfield Beacon and Broadbarrow Green.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Painswick Town Hall and Haresfield Beacon.

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.

Haresfield Beacon

Peak

Photo: Alan Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Haresfield Beacon is a 0.73-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1985. The site is listed in the ‘Stroud District’ Local Plan, adopted November 2005, Appendix 6 as an SSSI and a Regionally Important Geological Site.

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 Stroud and Quedgeley.

Stroud

Photo: BazzaDaRambler, CC BY 2.0.

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.

Quedgeley

Town

Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Quedgeley is a town and civil parish in the city of Gloucester district in Gloucestershire, England. A thin strip of land between the Severn and the Gloucester Ship Canal occupies the west, and the south-eastern part of the town is Kingsway Village, directly to the north of which is Tuffley. Quedgeley is situated 3 miles northwest of Harescombe.

Painswick

Town

Photo: Jongleur100, Public domain.

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.

Harescombe

Type: Locality
Location: Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.7904° or 51° 47′ 25″ north

Longitude

-2.2314° or 2° 13′ 53″ west

Elevation

335 feet (102 metres)

Open location code

9C3VQQR9+5F

GeoNames ID

7293604

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