Ebley is a community in

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...

, England. It was once a village, and is now part of the

Stroud Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the ...

urban area. It lies in the valley of the River Frome, 2 miles west of the town centre of Stroud. It is part of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Cainscross Cainscross is a suburban town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, bordering the town of Stroud and forming part of the Stroud urban area. The parish includes the communities of Ebley, Cashes Green and Cainscross, and part of Dudbrid ...

. Ebley was historically in the parish of Stonehouse. It became part of the parish of Cainscross when it was formed in 1894. Ebley Mill, on the banks of the River Frome, was a woollen mill built in 1818. It is now a

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, and is used as the offices of

Stroud District Council Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the ...

. Ebley Chapel is a chapel of the

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. It is a

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. Between 1903 and 1964

Ebley Crossing Halt Ebley Crossing Halt was opened on 12 October 1903 on what is now the Golden Valley Line between and . This line was opened in 1845 as the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway from Swindon to Gloucester and this was one of many small stat ...

was a railway station on what is now the

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Notable people

John Collins Bryant John Collins Bryant (1821–1901) was an American physician, author, and the co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Bryant was born on December 21, 1821, in Ebley in Glouceste ...

(1821–1901), an American physician and author *

William Vick William Vick (1833, Ebley – 15 April 1911, Merton) was an English photographer active in Ipswich, Suffolk from 1868 until the 1890s. William was baptised in King's Stanley, Gloucestershire on 25 August 1833. He was the son of a millwright ...

(1833–1911), became a photographer in

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. *

Henry William Carless Davis Henry William Carless Davis (13 January 1874 – 28 June 1928) was a British historian, editor of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History. Early career Davis was born in Ebley, near Stroud, Glou ...

CBE FBA (1874–1928), a British historian and editor of the

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References

External links

Stroud Voices - mid 20th century oral history from Ebley residents
{{authority control Villages in Gloucestershire Stroud District