Cranham
Cranham is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire. Forming part of the district of Stroud, it is to be found a mile or so east of the A46 road between Stroud and Cheltenham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 501 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Cranham, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cranham Church of England Primary School and Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods.
Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods
Protected area
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods is a 665.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. The Commons and Beechwoods lie within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Prinknash Abbey
Church
Prinknash Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery in the Vale of Gloucester in the Diocese of Clifton, near the village of Cranham, Gloucestershire. It belongs to the English Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation, which is itself part of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheepscombe and Great Witcombe.
Sheepscombe
Village
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheepscombe is a small village in the civil parish of Painswick, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Sheepscombe is located some 6.5 miles south-east of the city of Gloucester, 6 miles north-east of the town of Stroud, and 1.5 miles east of the village of Painswick.
Great Witcombe
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Witcombe is a village and civil parish 5 miles south east of Gloucester, in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 80. Great Witcombe is situated 1½ miles northeast of Cranham.
Whiteway Colony
Village
Whiteway Colony is a residential community in the Cotswolds in the parish of Miserden near Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The community was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyans and today has no spare land available with over sixty homes and 120 colonists. Whiteway Colony is situated 2 miles southeast of Cranham.
Cranham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cranham, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.81334° or 51° 48′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.15294° or 2° 9′ 11″ westPopulation
501Elevation
630 feet (192 metres)Open location code
9C3VRR7W+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 268749974OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12265895Wikidata ID
Q2052101
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