Haresfield is a village near Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England around one mile from Junction 12 of the M5 motorway and between the villages of

Brookthorpe Brookthorpe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 194. It has a church called St Swithun's C ...

, Harescombe and Hardwicke. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 378. The Mount, a moated site to the west of the current village may have been the site of the earliest settlement. The church was built nearby in the mid-12th century, while the village developed to the east. Haresfield today is a largely residential village with a pub, The Beacon Inn. The church, which is dedicated to St Peter, is apart from the village itself and accessed by a public right of way on a private drive. Haresfield Court (oringinally Moat Place) was built c.1676 and enlarged in 1869 by the local architect Francis Niblett. It was converted to flats in the 1980s. The village was formerly served on the

Bristol and Gloucester Railway The Bristol and Gloucester Railway was a railway company opened in 1844 to run services between Bristol and Gloucester. It was built on the , but it was acquired in 1845 by the Midland Railway, which also acquired the Birmingham and Gloucester R ...

Haresfield railway station Haresfield railway station served the village of Haresfield in Gloucestershire, England. History The station opened on 29 May 1854 on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway while converting from broad gauge to the standard gauge used by its new o ...

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Villages in Gloucestershire Stroud District {{gloucestershire-geo-stub