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<p>the Volume Covers The 18 Parishes Of The Cotswold Hundreds Of Bisley And Longtree And Includes The Market Towns Of Stroud, Tetbury, Painswick, And Minchinhampton. In The Deep Valleys Centred On Stroud The Cloth Industry Was The Shaping Force, Adding Interest And Complexity To The Story Of Even The Smaller Parishes Like Rodborough And Woodchester. There, Where The Cloth-mills Clustered Thickly Along The Valleys, A Closely Knit Society Of Clothier Families Played The Leading Role While Humbler Cloth-workers Swelled The Population, Establishing New Villages Around The Commons Of Bisley And Minchinhampton And Elsewhere In The Area. In The Early 19th Century The Factory System Concentrated The Cloth Industry In Fewer And Larger Mills But New Industries Like Iron--founding, Stick-making, And Silk-throwing Moved In, And Local Industry Continued To Expand And Diversify In The 20th Century. Painswick And Minchinhampton, Medieval Market Towns, Were Eventually Outstripped By The Newer Town Of Stroud Which Ex-panded Considerably In The 19thcentury Under The Influence Of The Railway And A New System Of Turnpike Roads Built Along The Valleys. The Nonconformist Churches, Par-ticularly At Nails

Author

Christopher Robin Elrington; N. M. Herbert; William Page; University of London. Institute of Historical Research; C. R. Currie

Publisher

A. Constable and Co., 1907-<2016>

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197227251

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24