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Whiteway Colony

Whiteway Colony is a residential community in the Cotswolds in the parish of Miserden near Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

The place

Whiteway Colony is a residential community in the Cotswolds in the parish of Miserden near Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The community was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyans and today has no spare land available with over sixty homes and 120 colonists. At the beginning, private property was rejected and personal property shared; however, today the colonists' homes are privately owned and sold at market value. As the colony abandoned Tolstoy's philosophy it has been regarded by many, including Mohandas Gandhi who visited in 1909, as a failed Tolstoyan experiment.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whiteway Colony

7 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
    Brimpsfield Castle

    Brimpsfield Castle was a castle in the village of Brimpsfield in the county of Gloucestershire, England, between Gloucester and Cirencester.It is likely that the first castle was built after the Norman invasion. Then, in the 12th or 13th century, it was rebuilt in stone.

    3.3 km · castle in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Miserden Castle

    Miserden Castle was a castle near the village of Miserden in Gloucestershire, England. The castle is a large motte and bailey Norman castle, built before 1146 by Robert Musard, after whose family the local village is named.

    2.6 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin at Syde in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the early 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3 km · church in Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Michael

    The Anglican Church of St Michael at Brimpsfield in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church, Cotswold, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods

    Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods is a 665.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. The Commons and Beechwoods lie within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    3.4 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Painswick Lodge

    Painswick Lodge is a grade I listed house in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England. The rubble stone building, which has been extensively reworked and remodelled since the 16th century, was home to Lord of the manor of Painswick between 1530 and 1804.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed manor house in the parish of Painswick, Stroud District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Miserden War Memorial

    Miserden War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Miserden, near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, south-western England. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is today a grade II listed building.

    2.1 km · war memorial in Miserden, 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.

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Getting to Whiteway Colony

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 95 km
  • Bristol → Whiteway Colony
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Whiteway Colony
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £8–11
  • London → Whiteway Colony
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whiteway Colony

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 Whiteway Colony. 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    190 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    466 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    502 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    507 km

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Around it

Next door to Whiteway Colony

Whiteway Colony is 50 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cranhamvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Miserdenvillage and civil parish in Goucestershire, United Kingdom1.4 km
  • Brimpsfieldvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Sydevillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3 km
  • Lypiattvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Sheepscombevillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom2.7 km