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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.

The place

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 Church.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brookthorpe

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Robinswood Hill

    Robinswood Hill is a hill and country park to the south of the city centre of Gloucester, close to the Stroud Road. It rises to 650 ft, and is owned and managed by Gloucester City Council's Countryside Unit.

    2.9 km · hill in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Swithun's Church, Brookthorpe

    St Swithun's Church is a historic Anglican church in the village of Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire, England under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    200 m · church in Stroud, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Painswick House

    Painswick House is a Neoclassical country house in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England. It was built c.1737 for Charles Hyett by the architect John Strahan.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed building in Painswick, Stroud District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holcombe House

    Holcombe House is a large Grade II* listed country house located near Painswick, Gloucestershire. The house is a fine example of an Arts and Crafts Cotswolds manor house.

    2.1 km · country house in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St James

    St James Church is a Church of England church in School Lane, Quedgeley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. It was designated as a Grade II listed building in January 1955.

    3.6 km · church in Quedgeley, Gloucester, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Town Hall

    Painswick Town Hall is a municipal building in Victoria Square, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England. The building, which is used as an events venue and also as the offices of Painswick Parish Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.8 km · town hall in Painswick, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Haresfield Beacon

    Haresfield Beacon is a 0.73-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1985. The site is listed in the ‘Stroud District’ Local Plan, adopted November 2005, Appendix 6 as an SSSI and a Regionally Important Geological Site.

    3.8 km · geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Barnabas Church, Gloucester

    St Barnabas Church is a Grade II* listed building located in Stroud Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. It was built in 1938–40 and obtained its Grade II status on 9 March 1982.

    3.6 km · church in Tuffley, Gloucester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Margaret

    St Margaret's Church is a 13th-century Church of England church in the village of Whaddon, Gloucestershire, England. It has been a grade II* listed building since 10 January 1955.

    1.6 km · church in Whaddon, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Little Thatch

    The Little Thatch is a 14th-century timber-framed building at 141 Bristol Road, Quedgeley, Gloucester. It is now used as a public house and hotel.

    3.5 km · building in Quedgeley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Brookthorpe

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 58 km · Birmingham (BHX), 79 km · Cardiff (CWL), 89 km
Stations
Haresfield railway station, 3.3 km
  • Bristol → Brookthorpe
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h · £5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brookthorpe
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Brookthorpe
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–11
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brookthorpe

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brookthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBut, there are aircraft available to charter.

From Wikivoyage: Gloucester (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    140 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    182 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    460 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    497 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    514 km

If you know how people move in Brookthorpe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Brookthorpe

Brookthorpe is 46 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Painswicktown and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Hardwickevillage and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England3.3 km
  • Harescombevillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Quedgeleytown in Gloucestershire, UK3.5 km
  • Upton St Leonardsvillage in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Haresfieldvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.1 km