Eastington is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

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, England. It lies 4 miles west of Stroud and 9 miles south of Gloucester at the entrance to the Stroud Valley. It is west of the town of Stonehouse and south of Junction 13 of the

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and the A38 and

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s. Since the M5 and its access roads were opened, the main road no longer runs through the village.

Community

Eastington parish includes farms and former mills. The village contains retail outlets including a Co-op incorporating a post office, a butchers, two pubs, two hairdressers, and a garage. At nearby Claypits there is a farm shop and a coach company. There is a community centre with sports field, and a village hall. The local primary school provides for about 140 pupils, and is situated adjacent to the Church of England St Michael and All Angel's at Churchend. There is also a Methodist church. The nature reserve of

Five Acre Grove Five Acre Grove () is a nature reserve in Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire.Kelham, A, Sanderson, J, Doe, J, Edgeley-Smith, M, et al., 1979, 1990, 2002 editions, 'Nature Reserves of the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation/Gloucestershi ...

lies east of the parish in

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 is designated a Key Wildlife Site (KWS). The village is part of 'Eastington and Standish'

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, which starts in the south-west at Eastington and follows the

north-eastwards to Standish. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 1,794.

References

External links

Eastington
from Elrington ''et al.'' (1972), ''A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10'', pp. 123–139.

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series, via

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GENUKI(tm) index page for EastingtonOwen Harris Sports and Playing Fields WebsiteKeep Eastington Rural Website Stroud Voices (Eastington filter) - oral history site
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