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Events What's On in Stroud: Five Valleys Fireworks and the Book Festival Local Info Stroud Roadworks This Week: Cowcombe Hill and A417 Nights Schools Amberley School Ofsted: Strong Standard in All Seven Areas

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All Stroud events
  1. On now to 31 Oct Over Farm Pumpkin Festival Over Farm · From £2.99
  2. On now to 31 Oct Enchanted Farm at Cattle Country Cattle Country Farm Park
  3. Wed 7 Oct Poetry Evening 8pm · Museum in the Park · Free
  4. Thu 8 Oct Mary Coughlan, with Jamie Lawson 8pm · The Sub Rooms · From £32.50
  5. 9 to 31 Oct Pumpkins After Dark at Over Farm Over Farm · From £10.99

Latest news

House Prices Stroud House Prices Fall £2,291 in July to £351,736 Stroud's average home lost £2,291 in July, the first monthly fall since December, and the annual rise more than halved to 2.9%. Flats are now falling. · 5 min read Remembrance Stroud Remembrance Sunday: 8 November, Park Gardens Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Stroud gathers at St Laurence at 9.30am for Park Gardens; Wotton, Nailsworth, Minchinhampton and Dursley times inside. · 5 min read Slimbridge Slimbridge in Winter: Wetland Wonderland, Swans, Prices Slimbridge's new Wetland Wonderland runs December weekends and 21 to 23 Dec, free with admission. Santa is £15; adults £17.91 online. Winter hours inside. · 5 min read Christmas Stroud Christmas Markets: Cornhill 4 Dec and 16 to 18 Dec Stroud's Goodwill market is on the Cornhill on Fri 4 Dec, 4pm to 9pm, then Christmas markets 16 to 18 Dec. Plus Dursley 27 Nov and Slimbridge's indoor market. · 5 min read Christmas Santa's Grotto Near Stroud: Slimbridge £15, Cattle Country Meet Santa near Stroud: Slimbridge's grotto is £15 on December weekends and 21 to 23 Dec, Cattle Country runs 5 to 23 Dec, and the free Goodwill grottos. · 4 min read Crime Stroud Bank Gardens Racist Abuse: Man Bailed, Police Appeal A man from Cam is bailed after racist abuse and flags ripped down at a 5 September event in Bank Gardens, Stroud. Police want witnesses: occurrence 53260076823. · 4 min read Elections Rodborough By-Election: Five Candidates Named for 13 Oct Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, the Greens and Reform UK are all standing in Rodborough on 13 October. Register to vote by midnight on Friday. · 5 min read Roads M5 Closed at Gloucester Both Ways, 16 to 19 October The M5 closes between Junctions 11 and 12 from 11pm on Friday 16 October to 6am on Monday 19 October. The order behind it allows four more weekends. · 9 min read Council Stroud Mayor Stands Down Four Months Into Third Term Cllr Tony Davey stood down as Mayor of Stroud so whoever inherits next year's budget can help set it. Cllr Louisa Stinton was elected mayor on 28 September. · 7 min read Crime Stroud Suspected Park Stabbing: Man, 18, Charged An 18-year-old is charged after a boy, 15, was hurt in a suspected stabbing at a park near Slad Road, Stroud, on 12 September. What police have said. · 2 min read Jobs Stroud Claimant Count Up 115 in a Year, Under-25s Up 28% Stroud district had 1,595 claimants in August, up 115 on a year: Gloucestershire's biggest rise. Claims by 16 to 24s rose 28%, against 10% across the UK. · 5 min read Planning Stroud Maternity Car Park Plan: Council Protects 23 Trees 23 trees at Stroud Maternity Hospital are now protected, beside a plan for 41 more parking spaces. The tree officer could recommend refusal. Comments close 23 Sept. · 6 min read
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Stroud sits where five valleys meet, and the mills that made cloth here are strung along the water all the way up them. Nailsworth, Painswick, Minchinhampton and Stonehouse are the valley towns and villages around it. South of them the district opens into the Vale, where Dursley, Cam, Wotton-under-Edge and Berkeley face Bristol and Gloucester rather than Stroud.

Stroud Today reports what the record shows across the whole district. Stroud District Council decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing; Gloucestershire County Council runs the roads and the schools; and much of the district lies within the Cotswolds national landscape, which affects what can be built and where. We name the responsible body in every story and link to the document.

The useful bits

  • Stroud house prices: what each town and village actually sold for, from Land Registry records. The middle Stroud home cost £320,000; the middle Woodchester one cost £625,000.
  • Stroud trains to London: direct to Paddington in 1 hour 24 at best, and £13,152 a year for a season ticket.
  • Stroud roadworks and travel: what is actually booked on the A419, what three hours in each car park costs, and who to report a pothole to.
  • Things to do in Stroud: the free museum, the commons, Berkeley Castle and Slimbridge, with prices and opening days.
  • Stroud planning news: 3.24 years of housing land against the five required, and what that means for the applications going through.
  • Local Info: all five pages above in one place, kept current and linked back to the source each figure came from.

Every fact carries a link to the source it came from.