A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1976.
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'Stroud: Jews', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds, (London, 1976) pp. 141. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol11/p141 [accessed 23 April 2024]
JEWS.
The Jewish community which settled in Stroud to work in the wholesale clothing trade had a synagogue near the junction of Lansdown and Slad Road, just within Painswick parish, from c. 1880. In 1889 a new synagogue was opened (fn. 1) on the northwest side of Lansdown nearer the town; (fn. 2) it apparently went out of use c. 1908. (fn. 3)