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Bisley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, approximately 4 miles (6 km) east of Stroud. The parish is today united administratively with the adjoining parish of Lypiatt and the two are usually referred to as Bisley-with-Lypiatt. The manor was formerly extensive, including the villages of Stroud and Chalford, as well as Thrupp, Oakridge, Bussage, Througham and Eastcombe.Bisley is a compact village sitting at the head of a combe high on the Cotswolds overlooking the valley of the Stroudwater or River Frome. It has a striking collection of very fine Cotswold architecture from large houses to typical cottages. In Saxon times it gave its name to a large hundred, an administrative unit probably then centred slightly to the north-west of he village at The Wittantree. When developed by the Normans after the Conquest in 1066, Bisley’s two remaining principal houses, Over Court and Jaynes Court, were farms until recent times and, like other farms in the area, situated just off the flat Cotswold plateau on which their arable lands were located in open or common fields.
