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Rodborough

Rodborough is a large village and civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire, in South West England.

Rodborough
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The place

Rodborough is a large village and civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire, in South West England. It is directly south of the town of Stroud, north of the town of Nailsworth and north-west of the town of Minchinhampton. The parish includes the settlements of Bagpath, Butterrow, Kingscourt, Lightpill and Rooksmoor, and is adjacent to the Stroud suburb of Dudbridge. The population taken at the 2011 census was 5,334.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rodborough

6 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
    Nether Lypiatt Manor

    Nether Lypiatt Manor is a compact, neo-Classical manor house in the mainly rural parish of Thrupp, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. It was formerly the country home of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and is a Grade I listed building.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed English country house in Stroud District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Selsley Church, King's Stanley

    All Saints Church is the parish church for Selsley in Gloucestershire.

    2.6 km · historic church in King's Stanley, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    700 m · historic church in Uplands, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary of the Angels Church, Brownshill

    St Mary of the Angels Church is located to the south of the village of Brownshill in the parish of Chalford, Gloucestershire, England. It is a redundant Roman Catholic church vested in the Friends of Friendless Churches.

    3.9 km · grade II listed church in Chalford, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    200 m · Grade II* listed building in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    200 m · public building in Stroud, 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 Rodborough

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 85 km · Cardiff (CWL), 87 km
Stations
Stroud railway station, 300 m · Brimscombe railway station, 3.9 km · Downfield Crossing Halt railway station, 1.4 km · Dudbridge railway station, 2 km · Ebley Crossing Halt railway station, 2.6 km
  • Bristol → Rodborough
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h · £4.5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Rodborough
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
  • Cardiff → Rodborough
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rodborough

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 Rodborough. 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

    133 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    181 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    468 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    516 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rodborough

Rodborough is 42 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stroudnon-metropolitan district in Gloucestershire, England500 m
  • Cainscrossvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Woodchestervillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK3.3 km
  • Pitchcombevillage and civil parish in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England3 km
  • Brimscombe and Thruppcivil parish in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England2.1 km
  • Amberleyvillage in Gloucestershire, UK3.8 km