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Dursley

Dursley is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England.

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The place

Dursley is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the cities of Bristol and Gloucester. It is under the northeast flank of Stinchcombe Hill, and about 4 miles (6 km) southeast of the River Severn. The town is adjacent to the village of Cam. The population of Dursley was 7,463 at the 2021 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dursley

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
    Wotton-under-Edge

    Wotton-under-Edge is a market town and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. Near the southern fringe of the Cotswolds, the Cotswold Way long-distance footpath passes through the town.

    4.8 km · market town in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tyndale Monument

    The Tyndale Monument is a tower built on a hill at North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England. It was built in honour of William Tyndale, an early translator of the New Testament into English, who was born nearby.

    2.8 km · monument in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ancient Ram Inn

    The Ancient Ram Inn is a Grade II* listed building and a former pub located in Wotton-under-Edge, a market town within the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. This inn was said to have also been owned by the local St.

    4.8 km · grade II listed building in Wotton-under-Edge, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Newark Park

    Newark Park is a Grade I listed country house of Tudor origins located near the village of Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England. The house sits in an estate of 700 acres at the southern end of the Cotswold escarpment with views down the Severn Valley to the Severn Estuary.

    5.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Owlpen Manor

    Owlpen Manor is a Tudor Grade I listed manor house of the Mander family, situated in the village of Owlpen in the Stroud district in Gloucestershire, England. There is an associated estate set in a valley within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    4.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Stroud District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St George

    The Church of St George in the village of Cam, Gloucestershire, is an Anglican establishment situated in a slightly elevated position above the village, bordering the market town of Dursley. The mainly mid-14th-century structure is a Grade I listed building and is registered with Historic England.

    1.3 km · church in Cam, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nibley House

    Nibley House, North Nibley in Gloucestershire is a Grade II* listed house on the English Heritage Register. The Neoclassical Georgian facade dates from 1763 behind which lies the Jacobean manor house built in 1609 by John Smythe the Elder, Steward at the time to Lord Berkeley.

    2.8 km · house of historical significance in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Piers Court

    Piers Court is a country house in Stinchcombe on the Cotswold Edge in Gloucestershire, England. A Grade II* listed building, in the mid-20th century the court was home to the novelist Evelyn Waugh.

    2.4 km · building in Stinchcombe, Stroud, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Congregational Chapel

    Cam Congregational Church in the village of Upper Cam near the market town of Dursley, Gloucestershire. Founded in 1662, and originally known as Cam Independent Meeting, it was the first Nonconformist chapel in the area.

    1.2 km · chapel in Cam, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mary the Virgin, Wotton-under-Edge

    St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of the town of Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    4.7 km · grade II listed church in Wotton-under-Edge, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Dursley

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 75 km · Birmingham (BHX), 95 km
Stations
Cam and Dursley railway station, 4.1 km · Berkeley Road railway station, 4.3 km · Dursley railway station, 300 m
  • Bristol → Dursley
    30 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £3.5–5
  • Cardiff → Dursley
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dursley
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dursley

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 Dursley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    132 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    170 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    470 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    507 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    525 km

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Around it

Next door to Dursley

Dursley is 30 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Slimbridgevillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK5.5 km
  • Uleyvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK3.4 km
  • Frocestervillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom5.3 km
  • North Nibleyvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Owlpenvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK4.3 km
  • Camvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.4 km