Woodchester is a Gloucestershire village in the Nailsworth (or Woodchester) Valley, a valley in the South

Cotswolds The Cotswolds (, ) is a region in central-southwest England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale. The area is defined by the bedrock of Jur ...

in England, running southwards from

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 ...

along the A46 road to Nailsworth. The parish population taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 1,206. Woodchester is approximately at the midpoint between Stroud and Nailsworth, about two miles south of Stroud. It is divided into North and South Woodchester, with a side valley between the two settlements. There are pubs in both North and South (''The Royal Oak'' in North and ''The Ram'' in South) and a post office with a shop in North Woodchester. There was a post office (called Woodchester) in South Woodchester but it closed, along with the shop, in June 2008. Woodchester is notable as the location of Woodchester Roman Villa. The village's parish church of St Mary's was designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon. The nearby Woodchester Mansion is regularly open to the public and stands in a landscaped valley. This valley is now owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust and is open daily. There are three waymarking, waymarked walks. The car park is at Nympsfield near Coaley Peak, not at Woodchester as some visitors suppose. Education is provided by the Woodchester Endowed C of E Primary School under Headteacher Mrs Pennington, which serves around 135 pupils. Following the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, Ofsted inspection in 2018, the school was rated ''Outstanding'', point four on a four-point scale. The school has secured the Healthy Schools award. The former Convent of Poor Clares, Woodchester, Convent of Poor Clares was home to nuns of the Poor Clares order from 1850 to 2011. Doubleroundhouse

Governance

The village falls in the 'Amberley and Woodchester' Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward This ward starts in the north at Woodchester and stretches south to Amberley, Gloucestershire, Amberley. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 2,116.

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BBC archive film of Woodchester from 1985
Villages in Gloucestershire Stroud District Civil parishes in Gloucestershire {{Gloucestershire-geo-stub

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