Fretherne with Saul is a
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 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 ...
district of
Gloucestershire
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, England. It includes the villages of
Framilode
Framilode is a village on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, England, in the parish of Fretherne with Saul. It consists of two settlements: the larger, Framilode, is at the mouth of the River Frome, Stroud, River Frome. The sma ...
,
Fretherne,
Saul
Saul (; , ; , ; ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh c ...
and
Upper Framilode.
Watercourses form a significant portion of the parish boundaries: on two sides is the
River Severn
The River Severn (, ), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain. It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, with an average flow rate of at Apperley, Gloucestershire. It rises in t ...
, which forms the boundary with the parishes of
Westbury-on-Severn to the north and
Awre to the south-west, both being in the
Forest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the Counties of England, county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangle, triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and no ...
; and the
Gloucester and Sharpness Canal forms the boundary with the parish of
Whitminster to the east, and the major portion of the boundary with the parish of
Frampton-on-Severn to the south-east. The land boundaries are with the parishes of
Arlingham
Arlingham is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. The 2021 Census recorded a parish population of 533 (271 males, 262 females (129 in the age range 0-17, 289 18-64year olds an ...
to the west and north-west; Frampton-on-Severn to the south; and
Longney and
Epney to the north-east.
The parish is crossed by the
River Frome, which flows into the Severn at Upper Framilode. The only major road in the parish is the
B4071, which connects Saul to the
A38.
The parish was formed in 1884 from the separate parishes of Fretherne and Saul, and from five
detached parts of the parish of
Eastington which lay within the parishes of Fretherne and Saul.
References
External links
Fretherne with Saul Parish Council
Civil parishes in Gloucestershire
Stroud District
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