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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sheepscombe like this:
SHEPSCOMBE, a chapelry, with a village, in Painswick parish, Gloucester; 5 miles NE by N of Stroud r. station. It has a post-office under Stroud. Real property, £2,821; of which £12 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 633; in 1861, 510. Houses, 138. The property is divided among a few. S. House is the seat of P. Matthews, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £130.* Patron, the Vicar of Painswick. The church is modern; and there is a national school.
Sheepscombe is now part of STROUD District. Click here for graphs and data of how STROUD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sheepscombe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sheepscombe, in Stroud and Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24399
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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