Edge is a village in the civil parish of

Painswick Painswick is a town and civil parish in the Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England. Originally the town grew from the wool trade, but it is now best known for its parish church's Taxus baccata, yew trees and the local Painswick House, Pain ...

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, England. The village is situated in an area of the

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that falls within the

Stroud District Stroud District is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. The district is named after its largest town of Stroud. The council is based at Ebley Mill in the district of Cainscross, west of central Stroud. The district also ...

Government

For the purposes of local government, Edge is a constituent village of the Painswick civil parish, which also includes the neighbouring villages of

Sheepscombe Sheepscombe is a small village in the civil parish of Painswick, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Sheepscombe is located some south-east of the city of Gloucester, north-east of the town of Stroud, and east o ...

and

Slad Slad is a village in Gloucestershire, England, in the Slad Valley about from Stroud on the B4070 road from Stroud to Birdlip. Slad was the home of Laurie Lee, whose novel '' Cider with Rosie'' (1959) is a description of growing up in the ...

. The civil parish forms part of the district 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. Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the ...

and the county of Gloucestershire. For

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purposes, Edge is within the UK constituency of Stroud. Prior to

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in 2020, it was in the European constituency of

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Facilities

The village is served by the church of St John the Baptist, which is a part of the

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. The village hosts a

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and

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, which are used for various functions including the annual Edge village fête. The village has two adjacent commons. Rudge Hill Common (formerly Edge Common), to the SSW is largely limestone grassland and forms part of the Cotswolds Commons and Beechwoods NNR. Huddinknoll Common to the N of the village is managed by Natural England. The village is intersected by several byways and the Cotswold Way national trail passes 0.5km to the South of the village.

Notable Buildings

The parish church of St. John the Baptist is a perpendicular style building originally constructed in 1865, architect S.W. Dawkes. It is faced in freestone dressings and has an octagonal tower with a bell-turret. The interior is largely unaltered and has a conventional chancel and nave plan with one aisle to the North side. Adjacent are the original National School and Schoolhouse dating from the 1870's. The centre of the village has several mid to late C17 farm buildings and cottages bounding the village green and the former Congregational Chapel, dated 1854.

Notable Residents

To the West is the adjacent hamlet of Stockend. The author C. Henry Warren rented a property here and used this as a basis for his 1936 book 'A Cotswold Year' wherein he detailed a year living in this part of the rural Gloucestershire.

References

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