King's Stanley is a village in

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

, England, situated southwest of the town of

Stroud Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five ...

. The village is part of what is known locally as 'The Stanleys', along with its neighbours

Leonard Stanley Leonard Stanley, or Stanley St.Leonard, is a village and parish in Gloucestershire, England, 95 miles (150 km) west of London and 3.5 miles (5.5 km) southwest of the town of Stroud. Situated beneath the Cotswold escarpment overlookin ...

and Stanley Downton. Marling Close, which contains the local playing fields on which the cricket and football teams play, was donated to the village by local magnates The Marlings who also helped found

Marling School Marling School is a grammar school with academy status for boys, with a co-educational Sixth Form located in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. It is on the Cainscross Road, the main route out of Stroud towards the M5, and is situated next to the ...

, and is now in the care of the Marling Trust. The village is overlooked by

Selsley Selsley is a village within the civil parish of King's Stanley and district of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, England. It is composed of around 175 houses, scattered around the western and eastern edge of a Cotswold spur, located approximately so ...

common. The village is home to the oldest

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Church in Gloucestershire that started meeting in 1640. In the

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of 1086 it is recorded as held by

Turstin FitzRolf Turstin fitz Rolf, also known as Turstin le Blanc and Tustein fitz Rou (Old Norse: ''Þorsteinn Hrólfsson'') played a prominent role in the Norman conquest of England and is regarded as one of the few proven companions of William the Conqueror ...

. The 12th century parish church of St George is a grade I listed building. The

Stanley Mills The Stanley Mills woolen mill at Ryeford, King's Stanley, Gloucestershire, England was built in the early 19th century. The main building is a Grade I listed building. History There had been mills on the site for many years but the current mill ...

woollen mill at Ryeford was built in the early 19th century. The principal part of the mill is a Grade I

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Education

King's Stanley is home to a C of E Primary School, established by amalgamating the Infant and Junior Schools on the site of the old Junior School. The Primary School was inspected by Ofsted in October 2009, and judged to be "Outstanding". In 2014 it was rated "Good".

Notable people

* William James (1754-1805), the great-grandfather of

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. *

Anthony Keck Anthony Keck (1726–1797) was an 18th-century English architect with an extensive practice in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and South Wales. Life Keck was born at Randwick, Gloucestershire in 1726 He designed in the "austere ...

, eighteenth century architect who had his workshops at King's Stanley throughout his life and is buried in St. George's in the village. * Sir

Charles Murray Marling Sir Charles Murray Marling (3 December 1862 – 17 February 1933) was a British diplomat. Early life Marling was born on 3 December 1862 in the village of King's Stanley near Stroud, Gloucestershire, the second son of Sir William Marling, 2nd B ...

(1862-1933), British Diplomat and Ambassador.

References

External links

Parish council websiteBritish History Online
- King's Stanley entry.
Stroud Voices (Kings Stanley filter) - oral history site
{{authority control Villages in Gloucestershire Stroud District Civil parishes in Gloucestershire