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Pitchcombe

Pitchcombe is a village and civil parish 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Gloucester, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

The place

Pitchcombe is a village and civil parish 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Gloucester, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 232. The parish touches Harescombe, Painswick and Whiteshill and Ruscombe.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pitchcombe

5 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
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in the Uplands area of Stroud, Gloucestershire. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    2 km · historic church in Uplands, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stroud Subscription Rooms

    The Subscription Rooms is a building on George Street at the centre of the town of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, erected in 1833 under the architect Charles Baker of Painswick. Funding for its erection was obtained through public subscription, hence its name.

    2.4 km · public building in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Town Hall

    The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in The Shambles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Stroud Urban District Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.4 km · Grade II* listed building in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.4 km · geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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

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.

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Getting to Pitchcombe

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 55 km · Birmingham (BHX), 83 km · Cardiff (CWL), 88 km
Stations
Stroud railway station, 2.5 km · Downfield Crossing Halt railway station, 2.6 km · Dudbridge railway station, 3.7 km · Ebley Crossing Halt railway station, 3.5 km · Bowbridge Crossing Halt railway station, 3.5 km
  • Bristol → Pitchcombe
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pitchcombe
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Pitchcombe
    67 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pitchcombe

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 Pitchcombe. 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

    136 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    182 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    465 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    501 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    515 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pitchcombe

Pitchcombe is 43 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Painswicktown and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Cainscrossvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Harescombevillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Rodboroughcivil parish in Gloucestershire, England3.2 km
  • Randwickvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Sladvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom2.4 km