Gloucestershire
Stroud District
Kingswood

Kingswood Abbey

Kingswood Abbey was a Cistercian abbey, located in the village of near , , . The abbey was demolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and all that remains is the gatehouse, a Grade 1 listed building.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: former monastery in Gloucestershire, UK
  • Also known as: “Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School and Wotton Electric Picture House.

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. is situated 1,600 feet north of Kingswood Abbey.

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. is situated 1 mile northeast of Kingswood Abbey.

Church
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is the Church of England parish church of the town of in Gloucestershire. It is a Grade I listed building. St Mary's was consecrated on 19 August 1283 by Bishop of Worcester, Godfrey Giffard. is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Kingswood Abbey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingswood and Wotton-under-Edge.

Village
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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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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 . is situated 1½ miles southeast of Kingswood Abbey.

Kingswood Abbey

Latitude
51.62659° or 51° 37′ 36″ north
Longitude
-2.36676° or 2° 22′ 0″ west
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
Levels
3
Open location code
9C3VJJGM+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 928263637
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Geo­Names ID
11550040
Wiki­data ID
Q1417888
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Hebrew—“Kingswood Abbey” goes by many names.

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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 Abbey”. Photo: Throwawayhack, CC BY-SA 3.0.