Cainscross is a suburban town and
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 ...
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, bordering the town of
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 ...
and forming part of the Stroud urban area.
The parish includes the communities of
Ebley,
Cashes Green and Cainscross, and part of
Dudbridge.
The population of the civil parish was 6,680 (in 2001) of which 14.6% are in the 5–14 age group. The area is predominantly white (98.4%) with a high proportion of lone parent households with dependent children in comparison to the Stroud and county averages. 18.8% of the household rent from a social landlord, 6.2% of household are claiming housing benefit, and 22.4% of households have no car – again all much higher than the county or Stroud profiles. Lone pensioner households are also high, at 18.2%, with smaller proportions of people providing unpaid care, and higher social service referrals for the over-75s than elsewhere.
As a relatively prosperous parish within Gloucestershire, there are low levels of burglary, theft of motor vehicles; the numbers of serious and fatal road traffic accidents compared to the county average. The percentage of young offenders resident in the area and of children with low scores at key stages 1–3, are also below the Stroud and county averages.
Local amenities include a post office and a number of shops, including a medium-sized co-operative supermarket. It is well connected to Stroud town centre, 1.6 miles (2.5 km) to the east, with frequent bus services to
Stonehouse,
Gloucester
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and
Cheltenham
Cheltenham () is a historic spa town and borough adjacent to the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort following the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, and claims to be the mo ...
. The
Stroudwater Canal is immediately to the south, as is
Selsley Common.
Governance
A
town (or parish) council and an
electoral ward in the same name exist. Much of the ward is in the parish, but stretches to
Randwick. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 7,316.
Notable people
*
Eugene Paul Bennett VC was born in Cainscross.
*
William Vick, pioneer photographer, was a local schoolmaster in the 1850s–1860s, before becoming a photographer in
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...
.
References
External links
Town council websiteaudio memories of old Cainscross
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Villages in Gloucestershire
Stroud District
Civil parishes in Gloucestershire