Stroud

Stroud, town (parish) and district, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, south-central England. The district occupies an area in the south-central part of the county between the cities of Bristol to the southwest and Gloucester to the north; it borders the River Severn on the west. Stroud district incorporates a section of the limestone Cotswolds uplands that rise some 600 to 800 feet (180 to 250 metres) on the east and the nearly sea-level fertile...