Stroud

Stroud, a busy manufacturing town of Gloucestershire; stands on rising ground overlooking the confluence of the Frome and Slade, which unite to form the Frome or Stroud Water, 10 m. SE. of Gloucester; numerous cloth and dye works are built along the banks of the river; in the town are several woollen factories.

Population (circa 1900) given as 10,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)