About Painswick

Painswick perches on a Cotswolds hillside, 8 miles from Stroud via the A4173. Most visitors arrive from the M5 at Junction 12, then through Quedgeley on the B4073. The honey-stone market town serves as a gateway to scenic valley routes toward Slad and Sheepscombe. The historic churchyard famously contains exactly 99 yew trees, as local legend insists the devil prevents a hundredth from surviving.

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Painswick is in England, at 51.786, -2.196 - about 8 km south of Abbeymead.

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