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Some general notes about Stroud – taken from our original website: The Stroud area has a complicated history and geography, set amongst the valleys of the River Frome and its tributaries, which cut deeply into the Cotswold escarpment south of Gloucester. The ‘five valleys’ have many settlements along their steep sides, and[…]

Stroud Civic Society’s new promotional and membership leaflet is now available for download. Photographs in the leaflet are by acclaimed local photographer Henri Kyriacou. Click here for your copy.

For 2009 the Stroud Town Design Awards scheme was used to promote good shop front design, with the Civic Society nominating five entries to go forward into a public poll run by Stroud Town Council. Attractive, well-maintained streets draw visitors and shoppers to a town and are a vital part of its vitality[…]

A news story from ThisIsGloucestershire. Stroud Civic Society’s own vice chairman, Tim Mars, announced, on April 1st, that Stroud’s notoriously ugly police station may be in line for Grade II listed building status. Tim said, “It’s about time Stroud police station got the recognition it deserves. Its etiolated horizontality offers an elegant[…]

Every year the Stroud Civic Society nominates a building for the Stroud Town Council Design Award. In 2008 the nomination went to Stroud College for their new building. Designed by Ellis Williams Architects of Warrington, this is an elegant, understated building with echoes of the white modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.  The[…]

In 2007 we nominated the Station Master’s House for its exemplary restoration. Built around 1890, this charming Victorian house, survived almost untouched until 2006. It was built by the Great Western Railway as a residence for the station master who had his own private door from the garden through to[…]