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Oakridge, Gloucestershire

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OS grid reference
  
SO9103

Country
  
England

Police
  
Gloucestershire

Shire county
  
Gloucestershire

Civil parish
  
Bisley-with-Lypiatt

Region
  
South West

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Fire
  
Gloucestershire

District
  
Stroud District

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Oakridge is a village in Gloucestershire, England. The parish church is St. Bartholomew's Church. It is just on the outskirts of Stroud, Gloucestershire.

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Oakridge consists of five hamlets; Oakridge Lynch, Far Oakridge, Waterlane, Bournes Green, and Tunley. Within Oakridge Lynch can be found the parish church of St. Bartholomew's, the nearby Oakridge Parochial School primary, the village Shop and Post Office, The Butchers Arms pub, and the Village Hall. The Butchers Arms is an 18th Century building with stone walls and oak beamed ceilings.

The Annual Oakridge Village Show is held on the first Saturday in September at the local recreation ground.

Notable residents

Charles Mason, one of the surveyors of America's Mason–Dixon line, (the other being Jeremiah Dixon), came from here.

References

Oakridge, Gloucestershire Wikipedia