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Stroud

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Stroud

Town in Gloucestershire, southwest England, in the Cotswolds 13 km/8 mi southeast of Gloucester, on the River Frome; population (2001) 32,050. For many centuries broadcloth and scarlet-dyed cloth have been made in the area, and are still produced for military uniforms. There are also engineering works, woollen mills, sawmills, and factories making plastics and fibre board.
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Pickwick's notes of the four towns, Stroud, Rochester, Chatham, and Brompton, that his impressions of their appearance differ in any material point from those of other travellers who have gone over the same ground.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross.
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