Slad

Slad

Holy Trinity Church, Slad
Slad
Slad shown within Gloucestershire
Population 388 (2011 census)
OS grid reference SO873076
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Slad is a village in Gloucestershire, England, in the Slad Valley about 2 miles (3 km) from Stroud on the B4070 road from Stroud to Birdlip.

Slad is notable for being the home and final resting place of Laurie Lee, whose book Cider with Rosie is a description of growing up in the village from his arrival at the age of three in 1917. Having bought a cottage there with the proceeds from the book, he returned to live permanently in Slad during the 1960s after being away for some thirty years.

The Slad Brook runs along the bottom of the valley. There is a small parish church in the village (Holy Trinity Church, a Grade II listed building[1]) and a small traditional pub, The Woolpack.[2]

Between 1970 and 1980 the poets Frances and Michael Horovitz lived at "Mullions", the end cottage of the settlement of Piedmont in an offshoot of the valley only accessible by foot from Slad. Frances' poetry from that period often refers to the surroundings there, as does Michael's Midsummer Morning Jog Log (1986).[3] Horovitz’s continued occasional residence is testified not simply by that poem but by his use of the cottage as the editorial address of his magazine New Departures into the 1990s.[4]

Government

Slad is in the civil parish of Painswick, the district of Stroud, the county of Gloucestershire[5] and the parliamentary constituency of Stroud.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Church of Holy Trinity  (Grade II) (1091579)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Home page". The Woolpack, Slad. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Horovitz, Michael; Blake, Peter (14 April 1986). Midsummer Morning Jog Log. Five Seasons Press. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  4. ↑ Horovitz, Michael (19 May 1995). "Fiddling". The Times Literary Supplement (letter). Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 2013-08-12.


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