The London Hotel
Stroud, Gloucestershire

The London Hotel is an elegant Georgian style 12 bedrooms private hotel, personally run by the owners. It is situated on the edge of the Cotswolds in the centre of the five valleys. This historic mill town is the ideal place to stay while touring and enjoying the beauty of the surrounding area. We offer en-suite tastefully furnished bedrooms with television, direct dial telephone, radio and tea and coffee facilities, full English breakfast plus a la carte candlelit evening meals. Guests can enjoy an excellent selection of wines, spirits draught and bottled beers in our relaxing and friendly bar lounge. London Hotel will ensure your stay is both memorable and pleasurable.

Stroud is a town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. Historically, Stroud is known for its involvement in the Industrial Revolution. It was a cloth town; woollen mills were powered by the small rivers which surge through the five valleys, and supplied by Cotswold sheep grazed on the hills above. Particularly noteworthy was the production of military uniforms in the trademark Stroudwater Red colour. Stroud was a fairly major industrial and trading location in the nineteenth century, and so needed transport links. It first had a canal network built: the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames & Severn Canal, both of which struggled to survive until the early 20th century. The canals are now being restored as a leisure facility by a partnership of British Waterways and the Cotswold Canals Trust (formerly the Stroudwater, Thames and Severn Canal Trust) with a multi-million pound Lottery grant. Stroud railway station (on the Gloucester-Swindon "Golden Valley" line) was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.