Stinchcombe

Stinchcombe Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Stinchcombe Hill
Stinchcombe is located in Gloucestershire
Stinchcombe
Location within Gloucestershire
LocationGloucestershire
Grid referenceST7360698151
Coordinates51°40′52″N 2°22′54″W / 51.68104°N 2.38179°W / 51.68104; -2.38179
InterestBiological
Area28.6 hectare
Notification1966
Natural England website

Stinchcombe is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England on the B4060 road between Dursley and North Nibley. The church is called St Cyr's and its churchyard contains 40–60 gravestones. The population taken at the 2011 census was 480.[1]

It gives its name to the nearby Stinchcombe Hill (grid reference ST7360698151) which is a 28.6-hectare (71-acre), a nearly detached part of the Cotswold Edge, which was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1966.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  2. ^ Natural England SSSI information on citation, map and unit detail
  3. ^ Stroud District Local Plan, adopted November 2005, Appendix 6 ‘Sites of Nature Conservation Interest’ Archived 6 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine