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Fairmead Gloucestershire Map

Traditional county: Gloucestershire · District / Borough: Stroud · Region: South West

Explore Fairmead, Gloucestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Fairmead map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

Interactive Map of Fairmead, Gloucestershire

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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fairmead, Gloucestershire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

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PlaceFairmead
Traditional CountyGloucestershire
District / BoroughStroud
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude51.699934
Longitude-2.367046
Place TypeSuburban Area

About Fairmead

Fairmead catches the pale, slanting light of the Severn Vale as it rolls across the Gloucestershire terrain. It lies 1.4 miles north-north-west of Dursley (from Dursley: bearing 336°T, OS grid SO 747 001), and is situated north-north-east of Cam village. The land here holds the quiet tension of the Cotswold edge, where the suburban fringes of Fairmead meet the sudden, sharp ascent of the limestone escarpment. To the south-south-west, the Stinchcombe Hill SSSI rises like a great green prow, its twenty-six hectares of grassland absorbing the weather that sweeps in from the west. Residents often look toward the heights of the Drakestone Camp, a scheduled monument that marks a boundary between the modern dwellings and the ancient, brooding silence of the ridge. The air above Fairmead carries a crisp, thin quality, untethered by the industry that once defined the valleys below. Paths lead outward from the residential streets toward the horizon, where the land falls away into the shadow of Hollow Combe. Such geography grants Fairmead a sense of stillness, as if the houses are merely waiting for the long, golden shadows of evening to reclaim the slope.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Holywell Orchard (Park) — 0.6 mi, 153° SSE
  • Stinchcombe Hill Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.2 mi, 197° SSW · 26 ha
  • Topograph (Viewpoint) — 1.4 mi, 207° SSW
  • Dursley Town Hall (Attraction) — 1.4 mi, 156° SSE
  • Dursley Heritage Centre (Museum) — 1.4 mi, 156° SSE
  • Hollow Combe (Valley) — 1.5 mi, 191° SSW
  • Drakestone Camp, Stinchcombe Hill (Scheduled Monument) — 1.5 mi, 203° SSW
  • Drakestone Point (Viewpoint) — 1.5 mi, 206° SSW
  • Billow Brook (River) — 1.8 mi, 285° WNW
  • Cam Long Down (Hill / Mountain) — 1.9 mi, 104° ESE
  • Stancombe Park (Historic Park or Garden (Grade I)) — 2.0 mi, 193° SSW · 27 ha
  • Breakheart Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.1 mi, 167° SSE
  • Marl Pool (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.1 mi, 282° WNW
  • Slimbridge Moated Site, 70M South Of The Old Rectory (Scheduled Monument) — 2.1 mi, 350° N
  • River Ewelme (River) — 2.2 mi, 131° SE
  • Dursley Sculpture & Play Trail (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 159° SSE
  • Coaley Wood Quarries Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 2.5 mi, 101° E · 5 ha
  • Uley Bury Camp (Scheduled Monument) — 2.5 mi, 109° ESE · 24 ha
  • Coaley Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 2.6 mi, 095° E
  • Cambridge Arm (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.7 mi, 356° N
  • Tyndale Monument (Monument) — 2.8 mi, 185° S
  • Uley Millennium Green (Park) — 3.0 mi, 115° ESE
  • South Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.1 mi, 330° NNW
  • Geese of the World (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 327° NNW
  • Puddleduck Corner (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 326° NNW
  • Living Wetland Theatre (Theatre) — 3.2 mi, 326° NW
  • Cattle Country Farm Park (Theme Park) — 3.2 mi, 261° W
  • Westridge Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 3.3 mi, 176° S
  • Scott House Museum (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 332° NNW
  • Slimbridge Wetland Centre (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 3.3 mi, 330° NNW

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About This Fairmead Map Page

Explore Fairmead, Gloucestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.699934, -2.367046. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.