Rough Bank
Rough Bank, Miserden is a 9.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1986. It was purchased by the wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation in 2012.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Snows Farm Nature Reserve and Church of St John the Apostle.
Snows Farm Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Cwmhiraeth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Snows Farm Nature Reserve is a 21.3-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Stroud District’ Local Plan, adopted November 2005, Appendix 6 as a Key Wildlife Site.
Church of St John the Apostle
Church
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of St John the Apostle is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Rough Bank.
Workmans Wood
Forest
Workmans Wood is a wood just to the east of the village of Sheepscombe, in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. It is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest being part of the Cotswold Commons And Beechwoods SSSI.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Camp and Whiteway Colony.
The Camp
Hamlet
Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Camp is a hamlet in the south of Gloucestershire, approximately 10 miles south of Cheltenham and 5 miles north-east of Stroud. It is in the parish of Miserden, a village about 2 miles east of The Camp.
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.
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.
Rough Bank
- Type: Protected area
- Also known as: “Nottingham Scrubs” and “Rough Bank, Miserden”
- Location: Miserden, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.77769° or 51° 46′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.13496° or 2° 8′ 6″ westOperator
Butterfly ConservationOpen location code
9C3VQVH8+32OpenStreetMap ID
way 164524961Wikidata ID
Q7370800
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