Kingswood, Stroud District - Misplaced Pages

Village in Gloucestershire, England

Not to be confused with Kingswood, South Gloucestershire. Village in England

Kingswood
Village
The Chipping, Kingswood
KingswoodLocation within Gloucestershire
Population	1,395 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	ST746920
District	Stroud
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE
Postcode district	GL12
Dialling code	01453

Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western

UK Parliament	The Cotswolds
List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51°37′34″N 2°21′59″W / 51.626226°N 2.366255°W / 51.626226; -2.366255

Kingswood is a town and civil parish within the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. It is southwest of Wotton-under-Edge and has a population of 1,290, increasing to 1,395 at the 2011 Census.

The village is located on the edge of the Cotswolds.

Kingswood was formerly a detached part of Wiltshire that was incorporated into Gloucestershire by the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844.

Kingswood Abbey was a Cistercian abbey on the northeast edge of the village. The abbey was founded in 1139 by William Berkeley, in accordance with the wishes of his uncle, Roger II of Berkeley, and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern. All that survives today is the 16th-century gatehouse, which is under the care of English Heritage.

Amenities

The village includes a pub, shop and gym which primarily serves the nearby town of Wotton.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward starts in west at Kingswood and stretches east to Alderley. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 2,096.

References

Neighbourhood Statistics - Area: Kingswood CP (Parish) 2001 Census
"Parish population 30 March 2015". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
, scroll to "Historical Geography"; ref. I. Gray & E. Ralph, Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester (1963)]
Archives Hub profile: Kingswood Abbey
"Ward population 2011". Retrieved 30 March 2015.

External links

Media related to Kingswood, Stroud at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Ceremonial county of Gloucestershire
Unitary authorities	South Gloucestershire
Boroughs or districts	Cheltenham Cotswold Forest of Dean Gloucester Stroud Tewkesbury
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Berkeley Bishop's Cleeve Bradley Stoke Cheltenham Chipping Campden Chipping Sodbury Churchdown Cinderford Cirencester Coleford Dursley Fairford Filton Gloucester Kingswood Lechlade Lydney Minchinhampton Mitcheldean Moreton-in-Marsh Nailsworth Newent Northleach Painswick Patchway Quedgeley Stonehouse Stow-on-the-Wold Stroud Tetbury Tewkesbury Thornbury Winchcombe Wotton-under-Edge Yate See also: List of civil parishes in Gloucestershire
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