Gloucestershire
Stroud District
Painswick

Slad

Slad is a village in , England, in the Slad Valley about 2 miles from Stroud on the B4070 road from Stroud to . Slad was the home of Laurie Lee, whose novel Cider with Rosie is a description of growing up in the village from his arrival at the age of three in 1917.
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  • Type: Village with 388 residents
  • Description: village in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Slad, Gloucestershire”
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bull Cross, The Frith and Juniper Hill and Lypiatt Park.

Protected area
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 42.33-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in , notified in 1954.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a medieval and Tudor manor house with notable nineteenth-century additions in the parish of , near , in , England. The grounds include a group of medieval outbuildings. It is a Grade I listed building.

House
Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Painswick and Stroud.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the in , 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 . is situated 1½ miles north of Slad.

Photo: BazzaDaRambler, CC BY 2.0.
is at the heart of the Five Valleys in the . It is in , . 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.

Suburb
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England, on the outskirts of . Lock on the Thames and Severn Canal is in the process of restoration. is situated 2 miles south of Slad.

Slad

Latitude
51.76383° or 51° 45′ 50″ north
Longitude
-2.18739° or 2° 11′ 15″ west
Population
388
Elevation
420 feet (128 metres)
Open location code
9C3VQR77+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26952108
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
12266274
Wiki­data ID
Q2720014
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Slad” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Slad”
  • French: “Slad”
  • Irish: “Slad”
  • Polish: “Slad”
  • Swedish: “Slad”
  • Welsh: “Slad”

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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 “Slad”. Photo: Anthony Eden, CC BY-SA 2.0.