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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: People from Stroud, Edwin Beard Budding, Nicholas John Baker, Martin Evans, Jack Russell, Mark Borkowski, Sean Rigg, Stroud High School, Richard Dryden, Marling School, Ecotricity, Jody Dobrowski, Tim McInnerny, Alan Hollinghurst, Tom Smith, Mike Cook, Charles Mason, Paul Compton, John Canton, Stroud & Swindon Building Society, Wallace Watts, Stuart Nelson, Stroud Wallgate railway station, Cliff Huxford, Downfield Sixth Form, Archway School, Eugene Paul Bennett, Stratford Park, Jackie Lewis, Stroud railway station, The Outcast Band, William Carruthers Little, Grace Eleanor Hadow, Mark Porter, Stroud pound, Gilbert Cox, Jack Lee, William Henry Stanton, Henry Miles, H. D. F. Kitto, Steve Arnold, Stroud College, Daniel Yarnton Mills, Lara Belmont, Sydney Smith, Joseph Lawson. Excerpt: Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. Situated below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills at the meeting point of the Five Valleys, the town is noted for its steep streets and cafe culture. The Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty surrounds the town, and the Cotswold Way path passes by it to the west. Although not formally part of the town, the parishes of Rodborough and Cainscross lie adjacent to Stroud and are often considered part of it. Stroud acts as a centre for surrounding villages and small market towns including Amberley, Bisley, Chalford, Dudbridge, Dursley, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Oakridge, Painswick, Sheepscombe, Slad, Stonehouse, Thrupp and Woodchester. Stroud is known for its involvement in the Industrial Revolution. It was a cloth town; woollen mills were powered by the small rivers which surge through the five valleys, and supplied by Cotswold sheep which grazed on the hills above. Particularly noteworthy was the produ...
